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Fake News Is the New Real News
Fake news (aka propaganda) has always been with us, just not in the hands of so many little people. Now it appears the genie’s out of the bottle and all the King’s horses and all the King’s men might...
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The Spooky History of a Time-Travel Hoax
For some retro Halloween fun, this fascinating oral history dives into a carefully constructed paranormal e-drama from the early ’00s. “The Oral History of John Titor, the Man Who Traveled Back In Time...
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Noted Twitter Conservatives Exposed as Russian Ops
It’s been a year since the 2016 US presidential election. As part of the larger story of Russian interference on behalf of President Donald Trump, the fever swamp of conservative digital media is...
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Another James O’Keefe’s Failed Trolling Op
Score 1 for investigative journalism on James O’Keefe‘s botched attempt to discredit The Washington Post on behalf of a Senate candidate and alleged pedophile. “A woman approached The Post with...
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Tracing the Roots of Wishful Thinking
As the year-end recaps gather on the horizon, many will attempt to make sense of Donald Trump’s ascent to the Presidency. Kurt Andersen’s book Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire provides a...
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Forget About Getting a Table Here
The London restaurant so exclusive that no one could ever get a reservation. H/t Bob O’Keefe. Bonus: Oobah Butler’s Vice play book on how he pulled it off. ‘The Shed at Dulwich’ was London’s top-rated...
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The Long Overdue Trump Apology
From Liz Plank’s Twitter @feministabulous. Click through to watch this inspired video: The president won’t apologize to women so I did it for him. Related posts: Not #FakeNews, But an Incredible...
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The Angriest Man on the Internet?
As long as computers have been part of mainstream life, people have been mad at them. This history of one of the first viral videos tells the tale of how information spreads across the digital...
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Meet the Right-Wing Street Artists of Hollywood
From Breitbart on down, well-compensated conservative media trolls ramp up their presence in the entertainment capital of the world. “How Hollywood’s Conservative ‘Street Artists’ Troll the Industry”...
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Time Traveling with The Simpsons
The beloved, long-running animated satirical program’s eerie track record of anticipating the future. h/t Andrea! Watch the video. Related posts: The Angriest Man on the Internet? The Spooky History of...
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Here’s Truth in Advertising
Oscar nominated movie poster alteration in service of the truth… h/t Miss Cellania If The Posters For This Year’s Oscar-Nominated Movies Were Honest by Caleb Reading uproxx.com January 24, 2018 This...
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Deepfake: AI-Assisted Porn
Hey! What’s my face doing on a porn star’s body? Everything You Need To Know About The Face-Swap Technology That’s Sweeping The Internet (And Getting Banned Everywhere) Digg February 8, 2018 Gal...
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Culture Jamming Godfather Gets a Fitting Tribute
In 1981, Don Joyce launched Over the Edge, a weekly program on KPFA in Berkeley comprised of cut-up tapes and surrealist social commentary. By the time he passed in 2015, he had been a core member of...
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Cold as I.C.E.
Art Collective Indecline and cartoonist Rob Rogers writ large. Bay Area Protests Trump’s Child Detention Policy with Billboard and Projection Hyperallergic by Benjamin Sutton June 21, 2018 A...
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Alan Abel, RIP
Better check the coffin! Alan Abel, Hoaxer Extraordinaire, Is (on Good Authority) Dead at 94 by Margalit Fox The New York Times Sept. 17, 2018 Credit Larry Stoddard/Associated Press Alan Abel, a...
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“Hippie Bus Tour to Queens” Remembered 50 Years Later
Fifty years ago, artist/activist Joey Skaggs took sixty hippies on a sight-seeing bus tour to suburban Queens. He called this satirical performance his “cultural exchange tour”. Read his story here on...
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From ElaraPictures on Instagram, a hilarious Mash-up of Brett Kavanaugh’s Senate testimony on September 28 2018 With Samuel Jackson in Pulp Fiction. Watch the video Related posts: Gender Studies...
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Meet the Man Who Invented the Roach Hormone Miracle Cure!
ART OF THE PRANK movie Blu-rays with 38 minutes of never before seen Extras and DVDs are now available! **Use coupon code “ABRACADABRA” to magically get $5.00 off of each disc purchased.** Watch a...
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This Rascal’s Obituary is a Collaborative Literary Masterpiece
As a fitting tribute to the prank-loving Rick Stein on the occasion of his death, his daughter Alex Walsh took some creative liberties in his honor. Then things got really ridiculous, swelling into a...
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Deep Fakes: Down the Horrifying Rabbit Hole
On the topic of our tenuous collective relationship with the concept formerly known as “truth,” this examination of “deep fakes,” high-tech simulated video recordings of people you recognize doing...
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