Monday, February 10, 2014

Satire Is Everywhere



Here are the links to the articles I was talked about in class today; Olympics Satire.

The Daily Currant is a satire "news source," similar to The Onion. On February 8th, The Daily Currant posted an article titled: Man Responsible For Olympic Ring Mishap Found Dead In Sochi. This article has been shared among social media more than 21.1K times! Many individuals -- including myself -- fell for this hoax.

What wasn't shared vastly among social media, was the reports that the "article" is a satire. One of the few truths from this incident, is that (as the above picture shows) not all the snowflake rings, appeared as they were to.

Did you too fall for this?

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