This is too funny: notorious hoax website The Resistance: The Last Line of Defense published an article that is (for once) mostly true: "BREAKING: Liberal Troll Responsible For Tucker Carlson Death Hoax Admits Who Paid Him". It is a reaction to the recent Tucker Carlson death hoax we debunked earlier as one of the first fact checking websites to do…
We are currently at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia in Italy and we wanted to use the occasion to showcase the way in which we find and choose most of the fake news stories that we debunk every day here at Lead Stories. The secret sauce behind our method is the Trendolizer engine that we developed in-house. This tool…
UPDATE July 13th 2017: A new version of this hoax is going around, read about it here. On March 18th 2017 a death hoax started trending on Facebook claiming British Comedian Rowan Atkinson had died. That this claim is false has been pointed out on this site and on others but that is not what this article is about. Celebrity…
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