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Eight Fakes A-Faking
There’s a whole lotta fakin’ going on…
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The Daily Ruckus (01/07/2025)
[COMMENTARY/OPINION | NEWS UPDATE]
On this episode:
A disingenuous FBI informant (no, not that one)
Someone who faked it ’til they made it (then quit)
A popular influencer becomes the victim of a non-kidnapping
An international media star makes headlines flaunting her craft in Syria
A comedian does his best to only pretend to ‘die’ on stage
A counterfeit image of a counterfeit pontifex goes viral
An alarming example of an artificial liar
And the biggest hypocrite of all takes its mask off
Sources:
- When Do Kids Start Playing Pretend?
- FBI informant who lied about Biden ‘bribes’ pleads guilty
- What is the controversy surrounding Finn McKenty? Internet reacts to ‘The Punk Rock MBA’ quitting YouTube
- Influencer Woah Vicky admits to faking her own kidnapping because she was ‘bored’
- CNN’s Clarissa Ward stages a viral interview with a fake Syrian prisoner. What else has she done?
- Comedian Dresses As Slain UnitedHealthcare CEO, Pretends To Read Tweets From Hell
- The god illusion: why the pope is so popular as a deepfake image
- Exclusive: New Research Shows AI Strategically Lying
- The Pentagon Wants to Use AI to Create Deepfake Internet Users
Supplemental:
Audio/Video:
- The Breakfast Club (1985) – What Ruckus?
- Family Guy but it’s just you’re a big fat phony | Zanahoria baby
- The Government Is Lying to You – Ron Funches
Lead-In Images:
- Here’s Why So Many Celebrities Dressed Up Like a Cat for the Met Gala
- Why Elon Musk’s Starship rocket is beating Nasa in the space race
- The Best Breathable Face Masks to Protect Your Kids Against COVID-19, RSV, and Influenza This Winter
- 40 Hilariously Creative Ways People Are Protecting Themselves From The Coronavirus
- 11 Things to Know About mRNA Vaccines for COVID-19
- Donnie Darko’s Mysterious Frank The Rabbit, Explained
- How To Use Virtual Reality in Education
- ‘Everybody is cheating’: Why this teacher has adopted an open ChatGPT policy
- Head teachers to report parents to police and social services if they let their children play Grand Theft Auto or Call of Duty
- WAR THEATER: Was the Syrian Chemical Attack Staged?
- AI ‘Nanny Bots’ Promise Kids ‘Genuine Friendship’ — But Experts Warn of Harm to Cognitive, Social Development
- Congressional UFO Hearing Features Eye-Opening UAP Claims
- COVID-19 restrictions mean children even less physically active than before: Participaction
- What’s The History Of Area 51?
- ‘I was the Pentagon’s UFO chief – I’ve held alien matter in my hands’
- COVID-19 restrictions mean children even less physically active than before: Participaction
- US sues TikTok for collecting kids’ data without parents’ permission / The Justice Department called TikTok’s age-gating methods ‘deficient in multiple ways.’
- Nurse caught on camera ‘faking’ a Covid-19 jab
- Did Dr Fauci Fake His Vaccine Shot? Compelling Footage! SHARE!!!
- Army investigating soldiers who posed in dog bondage masks
- UFOs Are Real, But Don’t Assume They’re Alien Spaceships
- COP26: Greta Thunberg to join Climate Justice protest in Glasgow
- Greta Thunberg: Activist arrested at Hague climate protest
- Climate activist Greta Thunberg detained by police in Germany at coal mine protest
- QAnon is spreading outside the US – a conspiracy theory expert explains what that could mean
- Jan. 6 rioter known as ‘QAnon Shaman’ sentenced to 41 months
- How COVID-19 Affects Your Body
- Human-like robot creates creepy self-portraits
- 9 questions about furries you were too embarrassed to ask
- Dylan Mulvaney
- Bill Gates’ warning to anti-vaxxers: People in rich countries will die …
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