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struggle4progress

(118,319 posts) Fri Jul 17, 2015, 12:47 PM Jul 2015

What was fake on the Internet this week

By Caitlin Dewey
July 17 at 12:09 PM

... A Vermont pastor wasn’t sentenced to a year in prison for refusing to officiate a gay wedding ... Michelle Obama did not remove fried food from Navy menus ... A Florida man was not arrested for having sex with an alligator ... The Islamic State didn’t tweet a warning about the Chattanooga shooting ...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/07/17/what-was-fake-on-the-internet-this-week-alligator-sex-fake-butt-explosions-and-obamas-invasion-of-navy-kitchens/

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What was fake on the Internet this week (Original Post) struggle4progress Jul 2015 OP

no way in hell do i believe #3 was fake Takket Jul 2015 #1

We need MORE of this kind of "refute the bullshit" reporting!!!! nt MADem Jul 2015 #2

That's easy Glassunion Jul 2015 #3

They didn't arrest that guy who had sex with an alligator!? jberryhill Jul 2015 #4

Takket

(21,596 posts)

1. no way in hell do i believe #3 was fake

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Fri Jul 17, 2015, 12:50 PM

Jul 2015

unless it is in the context that he was not arrested because police believe he didn't do anything wrong

MADem

(135,425 posts)

2. We need MORE of this kind of "refute the bullshit" reporting!!!! nt

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Fri Jul 17, 2015, 12:52 PM

Jul 2015

Glassunion

(10,201 posts)

3. That's easy

Reply to MADem (Reply #2)

Fri Jul 17, 2015, 12:56 PM

Jul 2015

Watch Fox, and divide everything by -1

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)

4. They didn't arrest that guy who had sex with an alligator!?

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Fri Jul 17, 2015, 01:08 PM

Jul 2015

"A Florida man was not arrested for having sex with an alligator"

I can't see why they didn't arrest him then.

Dang. Who knew that was legal in Florida?

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