Onion And Satire

No, the Governor of the Australian Reserve Bank did not really say living standards won't improve untill all the baby boomers are dead because they are the ones hoarding all the money. Philip Lowe never said those things, reports that he did are not true and originate from a satire website. The Betoota Advocate published an article on March 22,…

Did McDonald's announce a new spearmint flavored after-dinner Big Mac hamburger? And did it have a disgusting greenish tint? Fast-food lovers can rest easy: the entire story was a hoax published by a satirical website, it is not true. There are no green Big Macs, that's fake news. The rumor about the new burger originated from an article published by…

Is the U.S. military really partnering with ride-hailing service Uber to set up an on-demand helicopter extraction scheme called Uber-Xtract? Of course not, that's completely made up and not true. The story first appeared on military satire website DuffelBlog which published an article on March 19, 2018 titled "Pentagon partners with Uber for on-demand helicopter extraction" (archived here) which opened:…

Did you hear about White House directives ordering up military plans for a massive roundup of privately-owned guns between November 7th and December 13th? And that it would be called "Operation PREAKNESS"? None of it is true. The rumor started with a post on military satire website Duffel Blog from 2013 (archived here) which briefly went viral again on February…

Following the school shooting in Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida a day earlier satirical website Clickhole publised a story on February 15th 2018 titled "Touching: The NRA Is Releasing A Commemorative Line Of AR-15 Rifles To Raise Money For The Victims In Parkland" that was accompanied by a picture stamped with the official NRA logo showing an AR-15…

Despite what you may have heard the top leadership of the U.S. Marine Corps have not warned their troops against participating in the so-called "Tide Pod Challenge". There is also no truth to the news that several marines ("less than 100" according to the story) ended up in hospital as a result of being poisoned when they ate Tide Pods…

Reports that the U.S. Army created a new type of "holistic medic" a.k.a. "Complementary Medicine Specialist (69W)" are not true. The U.S. military will continue to provide evidence-based medical treatments to its members on and off the battlefield and will not engage in any kinds of alternative medicine practices. So where did the rumor come from? The story (archived here)…

An old article from The Onion started trending earlier today titled: "NASA Announces Plans To Launch Chimpanzee Into Sun" which claimed NASA was going to launch a chimpanzee into the sun to study how it would react to so much intense heat. The article opened: WASHINGTON--In what is being called a crucial step forward in solar exploration, NASA officials announced…