Mark Zuckerberg went live on Facebook to discuss Russian election interference and Facebook's next steps to protect the integrity of the democratic process. Watch the full video below: As you can see, the video has racked up almost a million views in about an hour and it is expected to be watched many more times.…
Fake/satire website The Nevada County Scooper posted an article titled "Facebook to Ban All Flat Earth Groups". It opens: 4,000 Feet Below Sea Level -- In a rare tweet from Mark Zuckerberg, the social media giant Facebook has announced it will be eliminating all groups associated with, or related to spreading, flat earth propaganda from its social media platform. Mr.…
Wouldn't it be great to be able to shut up some of your more politically active friends on Facebook for a while, say until this whole presidential election thing is over and done with? Imagine a timeline free from blabbering Berniebots, tattering Trumpeteers, crusading Cruzophiles or clucking Clintonistas. If you believe the story put out by News Thump, Facebook engineers…
Look! A fresh Facebook feature hoax. This time the supposed news is that you will soon be able to click a 'F**k That' button to reply to event invitations you really don't want to accept. In related news, the 'Maybe' button would be renamed 'No, but I'll wait until more people have responded'. Of course, the story isn't real: it…
Source: NewsThump We here at Lead Stories love internet hoaxes. Sometimes we even fall for them but most of the time we happily debunk them for sport. That's why we love satirical website NewsThump's latest piece about Mark Zuckerberg. It's so meta it made us go cross-eyed. There are several hoaxes doing the rounds that say Facebook founder Mark…
Here's more evidence that many of our friends -- or really "Facebook Friends" believe just about anything they see in print. You've likely seen the posts on your Facebook timeline many times since early December declaring that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg giving 1,000 lucky Facebook followers $4.5 million each. This is a hoax. All you supposedly have to do to…
According to an article currently going viral Facebook will soon add a 'dislike' button and posts that receive more than 10 dislikes will be automatically deleted. We can reassure our readers that this article is completely made up. The website that posted the news pretends to be USAToday by using the deceptive URL "usatoday.com.co" instead of the legitimate one which…
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