An elderly white man did not tell a black woman to sit in the back of the bus
What was fake on the Internet this week:
3. An elderly white man did not tell a black woman to sit in the back of the bus. At least not in this horrifying video, which has been shared more than 150,000 times on Facebook alone. The video was uploaded by a New Yorker named Zaida Pugh, who says the incident went down on May 5 on the B35 bus in Brooklyn. But Pugh, an actress, also goes by the name Ms. Muffin — and she runs an entire Web site devoted to “prank/skit videos … that put messages out there.” Many of the videos take place on public transit and depict charged confrontations similar to this one.
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6. “Shovel girl” is neither dead nor on Twitter — at least not on any of the many Twitter accounts that have popped up in the past three days. Miranda Fugate, the subject of a massively viral Vine video that shows a high school girl getting hit with a shovel, is very much alive — though she did suffer a concussion when her head hit the pavement, according to local radio. The death rumor began on the hoax site Huzlers, which (for the thousandth time!) is always fake. While we’re on the subject of undead Vine stars, Bryan Silva is just fine, too.
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But I guess I'm glad that it wasn't. Thanks for setting the story straight, T.S.S.(no pun intended). 