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It was a list of links to web pages the writers deemed egregiously useless, with humorous descriptions. [1] In time it grew to a directory with links archived by category. It helped disseminate many early minor internet memes and phenomenon. There were many imitators, and it spawned its own Yahoo category.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 2 March 2025. For satirical news, see List of satirical news websites. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. Fake news websites are those which intentionally, but not necessarily solely ...
Mark Sullivan of PC World listed Zombo among the Internet's ten most useless websites, concluding, "Well, in fact, nothing happens at zombo.com." [7] Samela Harris of The Advertiser calls Zombo.com "the most welcoming website on the Internet", [8] and Daryl Lim of Digital Life calls Zombo.com "the ultimate time-waster". [9]
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Fake news website that has published claims about the pilot of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 reappearing, a billionaire wanting to recruit 1,000 women to bear his children, and an Adam Sandler death hoax. [173] [174] [175] LiveMonitor livemonitor.co.za Fake news website in South Africa, per Africa Check, an IFCN signatory. [133] lockerdome.com
Fake news websites played a large part in the online news community during the election, reinforced by extreme exposure on Facebook and Google. [35] Approximately 115 pro-Trump fake stories were shared on Facebook a total of 30 million times, and 41 pro-Clinton fake stories shared a total of 7.6 million times.
Posting any number of useless messages made by bored editors of Wikipedia. Another cat picture. Here's a cat you can really sink your teeth into (or vice versa). Your low-effort school play of How the Grinch Stole Christmas!. Your high-effort Broadway play of Cats. A list of times you pinged @everyone on your Discord server.
The dead Internet theory's exact origin is difficult to pinpoint. In 2021, a post titled "Dead Internet Theory: Most Of The Internet Is Fake" was published onto the forum Agora Road's Macintosh Cafe esoteric board by a user named "IlluminatiPirate", [11] claiming to be building on previous posts from the same board and from Wizardchan, [2] and marking the term's spread beyond these initial ...