No, there was no man in Spain who put his male appendage in a hamburger to protest the lack of "real meat". He was not kicked out of the McDonalds at a Spanish mall either and no police got involved. The reporter who brought you the story, a "Gary Cockburn", is not real either. The story appeared in English on…
Clickbait site TruthExaminer posted an article titled "Donald Trump Refusing To Eat Japanese Food While In Japan" which completely contradicted its own headline. We archived it here in case the site is shamed into removing it. It opened: Japan has often been hailed as one of the best places in the world for food but that has not caused Donald…
Satire website 8shit.net published an article titled "McDonald's Will Start Putting Memes In Happy Meals". The story opened: United States.-- The CEO of the fast food restaurant Steve Easterbrook, announced today that McDonalds will be putting memes in their happy meals to make them even happier. This, followed by an incident where a man sued McDonalds because he was still…
Fake news website Meganews360 published a hoax article titled "Popular Namibian Restaurant Shut Down For Serving Human Flesh". The fake story begins like this: A hotel restaurant in Windhoek, Namibia has been closed down by authorities for serving human flesh to consumers. According to our local correspondent, suspicious residents told police of rumors that the restaurant was cooking human meat…
Fake news website Meganews360 (which redirects to news.states-tv.com) came out with an article titled "Popular Maltese Restaurant Shut Down For Serving Human Flesh". The fake story begins like this: A hotel restaurant in Valletta, Malta has been closed down by authorities for serving human flesh to consumers. According to our local correspondent, suspicious residents told police of rumors that the…
A NOT TRUE story is trending on the internet stating "4 Year Old Boy Finds HUMAN FINGER in McDonald's Happy Meal." This NOT TRUE story is just a repeat from 2 years ago from another HOAX website. Although this version of the story comes from a satire/hoax website, many people are unaware of that and share the NOT TRUE story…
Why, oh, why? Are your "Facebook friends" that gullible or do they just want to gross you out with fake stories about fast food employees doing stupid stuff? The latest viral hoax detected by Lead Stories' Trendolizer is about a McDonald's worker who purportedly added his semen to the "special sauce" on Big Macs. "Evan Thomas, 26, had been an…
There's a straight up nasty HOAX story making the rounds on the internet stating "McDonalds Sandwich Gave Woman Herpes." This is not the first time this NOT TRUE story has been posted, just a few tweaks with the state and names of subjects. It's hard to believe that anyone would believe this nonsense but if it shows up on Lead…
There is a rather disturbing story circulating the internet that claims a woman was caught masturbating with a Transformer toy in a McDonald's ball pit. The article was posted by Now8News, a notorious hoax website who photoshopped an unrelated mugshot into a McDonald's ball pit. Now8News reports that Mindy Schillinger is the name of the woman accused of this…
Our sister publication Trendolizer's fast-food news desk picked up a trending story from RT.com about McDonald's opening a restaurant in Kazakhstan where they might put hamburgers made from horse meat on the menu. We have since been contacted twice by PR people from McDonald's to inform us the story is not true: Dear colleagues,Following the publicationFirst McDonald's in Kazakhstan to…
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