Can You Tell The Hoax News Stories From The Real Ones?

This was a fake story from National Report, a hoax news website.

According to Jarrod Fidden of Awake Dating, the site caters to the kind of person “who has investigated and come to his or her own conclusions on a collection of topics and issues. And through this research and critical thinking, [he] has ‘woken’ from the fantastic false dream carefully crafted for the ‘consumer'.”

Canuck is a famously friendly crow in Vancouver, Canada. After police detained a man who threatened them with a knife, Canuck made a visit to the crime scene. "Yes, the bird did pick up the knife at a crime scene on Tuesday and began to fly away before dropping it,” Constable Brian Montague told BuzzFeed Canada.

This is a hoax story from World News Daily Report.

Attaporn Boonmakchuay was using the toilet in his home when a 10-foot python slid through his home plumbing and bit his penis.

U.S. border agents did in fact find a pound of meth hidden inside a burrito. An Arizona woman tried to smuggle it into the country, and she is now facing criminal drug possession charges with intent to distribute.

Hoax news site The Valley Report is the source of the story.

This is one of several anti-trans hoaxes that fake news websites have recently been pumping out. It was published by a fake site called Associated Media Coverage.

The queen bee was trapped inside the car, so her swarm followed as the driver went on her way. The bees followed the scent of the queen for two days were eventually reunited.

The Middle East Observer website published a story containing a fake quote from Isaac Herzog, a member of Israeli parliament and leader of the Zionist Union party, that said, "In March 2015, King Salman has deposited eighty million dollars to support Netanyahu’s campaign via a Syrian-Spanish person named Mohamed Eyad Kayali." That never happened, but the story was picked up by several online outlets in the Middle East.