Does anyone admit to being fooled by fake news?

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As the title suggests, fake news is pretty rampant. Has anyone got the stones to admit they believed an article that turned out to be highly misleading or outright false?
 
I left my door unlocked for a week before I realized this was fake. I felt like such a hopeful fool.

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I fell for a fake Ozzy death.. Then I realized he died 35 years ago but is still running on fumes.

I will say there is a good reason that 90% of fake propaganda (web, facebook etc) targeted Trump voters. The term usefull idiots applies very well. I mean these are the people who watch Fox news and Alex Jones.

Kalitaur said:
I left my door unlocked for a week before I realized this was fake. I felt like such a hopeful fool.

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Everyone has at some point in their life. I used to think Santa was real and that Hogan was huge because of prayers and vitamins.

The worst is people who get told the news is fake (like when Trump retweeted those misleading Britain First posts) and they still can't admit that they got it wrong.

I recall posts on here where people were saying "but it still happened, so why aren't you angry about that instead of Trump posting it?" Just admit you got it wrong and move on.
 
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I admit, I was first very intrigued about Bernie Sanders' body of a Greek god and felt the Bern but then I realized the above was fake news when I saw him...
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i make a distinction between shitty slanted news, and fake news. i've been fooled by the former many times. imo, the fake shit is pretty easy to spot.
 
I'm sure we all have, certainly me, but I'm always skeptical. Having your foot deep in your mouth more than once helps to form a healthy skepticism about any information.
 
I've been much more diligent in checking sources since the invasion of Iraq.
 
Up until I was about 30 yea, I believed everything that fuckin mat laur said..
 
It predates 'fake news' but dad took a lot of convincing that the Brass Eye :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:geddon episode was not real investigative reporting .
 
FIMN said:
As the title suggests, fake news is pretty rampant. Has anyone got the stones to admit they believed an article that turned out to be highly misleading or outright false?
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I don't get my news from Facebook or Breitbart, so no.
 
Admitting you were duped by fake news, and being a CNN viewer should practically be synonymous at this point.
 
Yep. I was fooled into thinking certain movements were more than just Facebook and twitter bs
 
I think I have a pretty good bullshit detector. Sometimes I think news is fake, but it turns out to be real. No so much the other way around.
 
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