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Poe's law is based on a comment written by Nathan Poe in 2005 on christianforums.com, an Internet forum on Christianity. The message was posted during a debate on creationism, where a previous poster had remarked to another user: "Good thing you included the winky. Otherwise people might think you are serious". [4] The reply by Nathan Poe read: [1]
Poe's law (fundamentalism): "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is utterly impossible to parody a Creationist in such a way that someone won't mistake for the genuine article." [7] Although it originally referred to creationism, the scope later widened to any form of extremism or fundamentalism. [8]
The People's Voice (formerly NewsPunch and Your News Wire) thepeoplesvoice.tv Active Founded by Sean Adl-Tabatabai and Sinclair Treadway in 2014. It has published fake stories, such as "claims that the Queen had threatened to abdicate if the UK voted against Brexit." Its name was changed to NewsPunch in 2018 and The People's Voice in 2023.
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Fox News apologized for fabricated quotes attributed to John Kerry in an article on its website during the 2004 presidential campaign, [308] stating that the piece was a joke which accidentally appeared on the website. [309] Fox News aired a segment celebrating a 14-year-old transgender boy in California. Several conservative commentators ...
In early November 2016, fake news sites and Internet forums falsely implicated the restaurant Comet Ping Pong and Democratic Party figures as part of a fictitious child trafficking ring, which was dubbed "Pizzagate". [55] The conspiracy theory was debunked by the fact-checking website Snopes.com, The New York Times, and Fox News.