The digital age is a constant flow of information. Like, a solid plus… If we used the resource with benefits and a clear conscience. Daily in the network gets a ton of fake information for the sake of political ambitions, climate, or just fun. A modern Internet user needs to be careful, and have a dense filter, so as not to let into your life extra letters.
But the insidious jokes experienced disinformation, sometimes, it falls to each of us. What were the main fake news in 2017?
Keanu Reeves drinks the blood of babies
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Fall 2017 stunned by the news, the world – famous actor Keanu Reeves at leisure to drink infant blood, just for fun, of course. Besides, the movie star did not hesitate to admit it during an interview in Milan. The news surprised not all – some netizens calmly stated that this fact was known: «the Years go by, and Keanu Reeves remains the same – he just drinks the blood of babies to be forever young».
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Really, at 53 Keanu looks the envy of all. But no interviews during his trip to Milan, Reeves is not allowed.
The Japanese restaurant serves human meat
Fake News
What is there to wonder? The Japanese – even those gastronomic experimenters. 2017 – the era of veganism and vegetarianism, but why not open a restaurant for cannibals? In this world everyone should have a place where he feels comfortable.
So, in Japan, it is possible to bequeath my body after death to the chefs. For a tidy sum.
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But, after all, the restaurant’s «Edible brother» in Tokyo does not exist. Worry that you will not be able to try a delicacy, or rejoice that your body is guaranteed not to be eaten while travelling – but the fact another fake news take.
Another end of the world No. 5656788
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We were promised the end of the world in 2012 through nuclear explosion or asteroid impact in 2014 – from the collision of Earth with a huge acid cloud (16 million kilometers), and in 2017, referred to the revelation Inanna the theologian.
In the ancient source said: «the world will end is associated with the fire.» So the main alarmists on the planet decided to commemorate November 19, 2017 the day of the death of the Universe. Venus had to face Jupiter, which the Sun burst and the Earth to sink into the darkness.
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What we have today? Live, guys!
U.S. military aid to the wrong guys
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The following news may sound absurd, but contrary to common sense she could bring noise and cause a stir in the vast online world. A screenshot from a computer game was presented as «clear evidence» of US aid to terrorists. The frame presented as a picture taken by Russian drones near the town of Abu Kamal.
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In fact, the picture was a piece of the game for smartphones AC-130 Gunship Simulator: Special Ops Squadron. Of course, an hour later the news was removed from the accounts of the defense Ministry in Facebook and Twitter. But to remove something from the Internet – very difficult…
The chief mate of the tramp and its massacres in Kentucky
Fake News
Kelliann, Conway – Advisor to the President of the United States Donald trump in an interview, mentioned some kind of «mass slaughter» of 2011 in Kentucky. Conway vehemently defended the ban trump for entry to the United States to citizens of seven Muslim countries, claiming that Obama had already established a similar policy for Iraqi refugees in 2011.
«President Obama in his time has set a six-month ban on the Iraqi refugee programme after two Iraqis came here to this country was radicalized and provoked the slaughter in Bowling Green,» said Conway. «Most people don’t know it because it does not apply».
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But most people don’t know about it probably because it’s never happened. Later, Kelliann published in your account with the tweet, where he said that meant «terrorism in Bowling Green»
Besides, Obama never banned Iraqi refugees or just Iraqi travelers to come to the US. More than 7,800 Iraqis were admitted to the U.S. on nonimmigrant visas, including tourists, in 2011 (government data).
