Showing posts with label satire. Show all posts
Showing posts with label satire. Show all posts

Tuesday, 18 October 2016

Fighting fire with fire and hoaxes with hoaxes

NewsThump apparently attempts to reduce the number of Facebook hoaxes by generating a hoax of its own. Where would the internet be without satire?
I thought of sharing this article on Facebook, but was torn between not wanting to mislead people who lack the hoax/satire recognition gene, and not wanting to offend people who would see right through it anyway by explaining that NewsThump isn't a real news site...
David Harley