WATCH OUR OTHER VIDEOS: 25 Urban Legends That Turned Out to be True; 25 Weird Historical Events That Sound Fake: Weve all been there. Youre scrolling through your feed, and suddenly, a headline pops ...

"Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it," Jonathan Swift once wrote. BuzzFeed wants to tighten up the race. The purveyor extraordinaire of viral content has enlisted debunking specialist ...

There’s a great article on Esquire‘s website right now titled “We Broke the Internet.” You should probably go read it, but the basic premise is that we should learn something from the seemingly ...

* ‘ Sting operation ’ hoaxes that are used by law enforcement to catch criminals. * Art hoaxes such as art done by chimpanzees and elephants that fooled many art critics. * Internet hoaxes (such as ...

I've mentioned AI scams getting worse, but 've noticed another pattern lately: viral hoaxes are popping up more often, and they’re spreading faster than ever. Two recent examples claim that "The ...