It can be quite a challenge to tell what’s true and what’s lies whether you’re talking to someone in real-life or surfing the internet. It’s easy to brag but harder to verify. Or to put it differently, it takes far more effort to refute lies than to spread them. And though many stories actually do sound way too outlandish to be real, fact can often be stranger than fiction.
There’s one subreddit that took this idea and ran with it. The small online community shares screenshots that end up confirming the ridiculous stories that people have told their family and friends. It’s the kind of stuff that makes you wonder whether all the wild things your pals boasted about were more than mere bragging… We’ve also collected some of the most fake-sounding but genuinely real headlines from the extremely popular r/nottheonion subreddit for your enjoyment. Check out the best posts and upvote your faves!
Bored Panda wanted to learn more about spotting potential red flags that a news story might be fake or biased, so we reached out to Lisa McLendon, Ph.D., the William Allen White Professor of Journalism and Mass Communications and the Bremner Editing Center Coordinator at the University of Kansas. She was kind enough to shed some light on this, as well as on how to distinguish between reliable and unreliable sources.
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