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  • Reporter Baxter Dimitri Kidnapped By Russian Deep State Aliens On Orders From Pope Francis

    Satire

    Reports indicate intrepid reporter and truth-teller Baxter Dimitri from the always reliable legitimate news website YourNewsWire was kidnapped today by Russian Deep State Aliens on direct orders from the Vatican. According to these reports Pope Francis has ordered a secret cabal of big pharma supporting doctors to make sure Dimitri is injected with a mind control vaccine to stop him…

    • Apr 1, 2018
    • by: Maarten Schenk
    Reporter Baxter Dimitri Kidnapped By Russian Deep State Aliens On Orders From Pope Francis
  • Looming Crisis As Experts Warn The World Is Running Out Of Facts To Check

    Satire

    Experts have warned a crisis is imminent as the world is running out of facts to check. A recent study by the Federal Institute for Statistics on Hoaxes (F.I.S.H.) estimated that every fact in the world would be checked as early as 2022. This would put thousands of fact checkers out of work and could even lead to a global…

    • Apr 1, 2018
    • by: Maarten Schenk
    Looming Crisis As Experts Warn The World Is Running Out Of Facts To Check
  • Most News Websites In Kosovo Actually Run By Native Americans

    Satire

    Pristina, Kosovo - After a wide-ranging investigation one of our undercover reporters found out that most mainstream news websites in Kosovo are in fact being run out of the basement of Chief Horner's Indian Restaurant and Casino in St. Paul, right in the middle of one of America's oldest Native American reservations. By using a combination of geolocation tools, domain…

    • Apr 1, 2018
    • by: Maarten Schenk
    Most News Websites In Kosovo Actually Run By Native Americans
  • The Onion To Become A Regular News Website

    Satire

    Chicago, IL - In a surprise announcement the management of famous satire website The Onion has announced today it will transition to being a regular news outlet. A statement released to the press read: In the end simple economics led to this decision. It is just too much work to keep inventing outlandish stories that can compete with all the…

    • Apr 1, 2018
    • by: Maarten Schenk
    The Onion To Become A Regular News Website
  • InfoWars To Be Renamed InfoPeace After Peace Agreement Signed

    Satire

    Folks, the vicious feud between President Trump and the fake news media has finally come to an end. After prolonged secret negotiations brokered by the Dalai Lama and international disarmament expert Claire Wardle the various warring factions have decided to burry the hatchet: Donald Trump, George Soros, the Illuminati, the owers of Comet Ping Pong Pizza, Alex Jones, Twitter, Facebook,…

    • Apr 1, 2018
    • by: Maarten Schenk
    InfoWars To Be Renamed InfoPeace After Peace Agreement Signed
  • Two Canadian Men Arrested For Running Fake News Site To Fund Poutine Addiction

    Satire

    Quebec, Canada - Armed police stormed into a suburban home this morning to arrest Janick Murray-Hall and Olivier Legault for running a fake news website to fund their poutine addiction. Investigators believe the men used their website World News Daily Report to flood the world with invented news about bizarre crimes and weird sex acts in order to rake…

    • Apr 1, 2018
    • by: Maarten Schenk
    Two Canadian Men Arrested For Running Fake News Site To Fund Poutine Addiction
  • Fake News Kingpin Christopher Blair Found Murdered By Hillary Clinton

    Satire

    Maine - Fake news kingpin Christopher Blair (better known under his alias "Busta Troll") was found dead this morning in front of his computer after a neighbour heard sounds of a struggle and several gunshots. Witness Hank Meancrest who lives next door told police investigators he though he saw Hillary Clinton's limousine flee the scene of the crime shortly before…

    • Apr 1, 2018
    • by: Maarten Schenk
    Fake News Kingpin Christopher Blair Found Murdered By Hillary Clinton
  • Fake News: DEA Did NOT Raid Ranch of Democrat Senator Hal Lindsay

    Fact Check

    Our favorite fake news website The Last Line of Defence started another fake rumor today titled: "The DEA Just Raided A United States Senator-Dems In A Panic". It opens like this: The DEA just raided the vacation ranch of Democrat Senator Hal Lindsay (D-NJ), seizing more than 400 marijuana plants, 2 greenhouses full of opium-producing poppies and a small lab…

    • Jun 10, 2017
    • by: Maarten Schenk
  • Fake News: Monica Lewinsky NOT Found Dead In Roslindale

    Fact Check

    Fake news website Freedom Crossroads launched a death hoax about Monica Lewinsky titled: "BREAKING: Monica Lewinsky Found Dead In Roslindale" today. The same hoax was reposted on The Resistance: The Last Line of Defense with the modified title: "BREAKING: Monica Lewinsky Found Dead". Both stories open: Monica Lewinsky was having a visit with a friend from high school this week…

    • Jun 3, 2017
    • by: Maarten Schenk
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