You just got hoaxed, fool.
That time a few German documentarians tricked millions into believing chocolate is slimming and healthy.
Last year, Peter Onneken and Diana Löbl were working on a documentary film about the junk-science diet industry when they got the idea to create a junk-science study to see if they could a) get it published, and b) get it picked up by the media. With the help of Johannes Bohannon, Ph.D. (John Bohannon), the Daily Mail, Huffington Post, and Shape magazine were soon all sharing this bogus study.
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That time we all thought "Dumb Starbucks" was high-brow experimental art.
In February 2014, after social media had been going crazy trying to solve the mystery of Dumb Starbucks — conceptual artist Marc Horowitz even claimed the art as his own — Nathan Fielder revealed the store was a stunt for his Comedy Central show. In Nathan for You, Fielder tried to help struggling companies and people, offering them outlandish and stupid strategies to grow their businesses.
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Here's a clip from his show:
That time the New York Times thought Obama's cover on Tiger Beat helped his popularity with the young crowd.
Surprise, surprise: The cover wasn't real. It was from The Onion. But the NYT had to issue a correction after insinuating that Obama's cover had helped him gain popularity with tweens.
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