Google’s 9/11 doodle and other Onion fakes dupe Facebook users
This Google doodle was clearly a satirical creation of The Onion, but that didn’t stop the outrage from some slower Facebook users.
(Credit: Screenshot by Eric Mack/CNET )
Sadly, not everyone always gets the joke. But it seems the ranks of the gullible and clueless may be deeper than we originally thought.
The reemergence and apparent pervasiveness of a global meme around satirical Onion articles that some of our fellow humans read to be the literal truth is actually more absurd than the silly fake news stories said people are being duped by.
In the past decade, we’ve occasionally seen…
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