40 Times People And The Media Thought They Would Get Away With Their Lies Until Their Subjects Replied To Them First-Hand

More than 70 percent of Americans who follow current events feel concerned about “fake news”. Well, they have every reason to. False or misleading information can be seen everywhere—from online media to print, from TV to radio. But even if we feel overwhelmed by the number of lies we’re bombarded with daily, it shouldn’t discourage us from exposing them.

Luckily, some people who stumbled upon falsehoods said about them online chose to do everyone a public service and call them out. To celebrate their razor-sharp replies, members of the Quit Your BS subreddit decided to document their deeds and share the screenshots with the whole community.

From learning about your non-existent wife to seeing yourself in an ad you didn’t sign up for, take a look at some of the best posts Bored Panda has selected from this page, and upvote the ones you liked the most! If you’re in the mood for more posts where people expose others’ nonsense, check out our previous posts here, here, and here.

#1 Delivering The Twist Ending

40 Times People And The Media Thought They Would Get Away With Their Lies Until Their Subjects Replied To Them First-Hand

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#2 Don’t See Much Star Trek Content Here

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#3 I Guess Heroic Hollywood Really Likes That Film…

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#4 Wait Wha… How… Even…

40 Times People And The Media Thought They Would Get Away With Their Lies Until Their Subjects Replied To Them First-Hand

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#5 Girl Exposes Bs Account Using Her Pictures To Sell Their Product

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#6 The Mountain Calling Out An Instagram Fan Page On Their Bullsh*t

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#7 Chris Hemsworth Calls Out The Daily Mail

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#8 Grandma Shuts Down The Bullsh*t

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#9 That’s Sad

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#10 Youtuber Mkbhd Calls Out Chair Company, That Photoshopped Him On Their Ad Against His Will

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#11 Trying To Make A Celebrity Look Bad Backfires

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#12 That Was Quickly Gunned Down

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#13 Samuel L Jackson Wasn’t Having Any Of Their Bullsh*t Tn

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#14 Dailymail Literally Photoshops Man’s Picture To Accuse Him Of Neglecting Social Distancing With His Dad…

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#15 She Met Zedd’s “Wife” In The Bathroom. Gets Called Out Directly

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#16 Misleading Headline Called Out By Mom

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#17 Credit To U/Haqummar

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#18 Apparently Homophobia = Criticism

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#19 X-Men Director Shuts Down Fake News Article

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#20 Ign Does An Ign

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#21 Chris O’dowd Calling Out The Daily Mirror

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#22 Best. Day. Ever!

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#23 Jeremy Clarkson Calling Out A Fake Story

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#24 Pretty Sure This Counts

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#25 Jj Watt Calls Out His Own Team

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#26 She Tried To Call Out Mrbeast

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#27 Don’t Try To Bullsh*t Data

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#28 John Stewart: No I Didnt

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#29 Imagine Being So Consumed By Calling Everything Fake News, That You Become One With The Fake News

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#30 Silent Bob Says No

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#31 It’s Always Nice When Media Create Fake Dramas…

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#32 Kumail “Bailed” On Sh*tty Journalism

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#33 Loudwire Back With Their Sh*t Again

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#34 News Outlet Clickbait

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#35 Nick Offerman Calls Out ‘Brobible’

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#36 Guy Fishes For Retweets, Gets Called Out By Official Account

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#37 Elon Musk Shuts Down Time Magazine

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#38 The Sister He Always Wanted But Never Had

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#39 Elon Musk Should Just Start Posting His Own Tweets Here To Be Honest

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#40 James Gunn Responds To Fake Article

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