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Episode Episode 3.07

Episode 307.

I'm going to be a good thing. My name is David McGraney.

This is the You're Not So Smart podcast.

And let's open this episode about fake news with a question.

Have you ever commented on a post or shared an article on social media or sent a link to a friend

only to later learn that it was either partially or completely fake.

Like actual fake news.

Has it ever actually tricked you just by seeming as though it was probably true?

Whether you've shared a bit of fake news or not, you've probably been exposed to quite a bit of it,

and you've probably received a link from a friend or a family member or seen a post on their

social media feed that was, to you, obviously fake, but to them raised no skeptical alarms.

Back during the Obama years, back when social media had only been

around for about a decade, there was this website named Literally Unbelievable that cataloged

examples of people doing this. Specifically, it cataloged people mistaking satirical articles from the

onion for real news. The onion, if you are unaware, is a wholly fake news website that writes

satirical articles and headlines for the sake of comedy. And the founders of literally

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