Have you ever heard of The Velvet Sunset? Me neither. however the indie rock band has been heating up Spotify’s charts this week, with almost 600,000 month-to-month listeners presumably jamming out to the band’s limp, nation rock glurge. “Mud on the Wind” (not a canopy of the Kansas track “Mud within the Wind”) has over…
I am fascinated with the fictional data infrastructure through which many people (arguably all of us) reside. The fake-news expanded universe encompasses the whole lot from political propaganda, to conspiracy theories, non secular beliefs (besides those you maintain, after all, that are completely true), and that factor your buddy informed you that point. Additionally: movie…
On April 4, 2025, an nameless person on infamous message board 4chan posted a file entitled “roy_jay_pjs” with this cryptic message: “It is a demon writing itself into(sic) retroactively into popular culture historical past. You will assume this can be a shitpost, however youll keep in mind him out of your childhoods quickly sufficient.” Here…
We might earn a fee from hyperlinks on this web page. Disinformation tends to metastasize. Lies mutate with every retelling till the ultimate product appears nothing like the unique supply. This phenomenon is especially placing on the planet of UFOs, the place a long time of institutional secrecy have created fertile floor for hypothesis to…
One other week, one other “gotcha” video debunked. This time it is “Cop Pulls Over Black Decide and Lives To Remorse It,” a chunk of pseudo-documentary avenue drama that is been seen thousands and thousands of occasions on YouTube and TikTok (and elsewhere, I am certain). The video is a part of a rising on-line…
A couple of weeks in the past, I posted a narrative in regards to the proliferation of AI-created pretend information movies about Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt. As a result of I’m honest (and balanced!), this week I am wanting on the AI distortion of a hero from the left: Dallas-based congressperson Jasmine Crockett. The actual…
Possibly it is not truthful to name a medical analysis “fashionable,” however increasingly more adults within the U.S. are in search of therapy for consideration deficit hyperactivity dysfunction. ADHD, as soon as considered a childhood illness, has made the transition to maturity: About 15.5 million adults within the U.S. have been “formally” recognized with the…
In case you’ve acquired an innocent-sounding textual content from a quantity you do not acknowledge, it isn’t truly harmless. It is possible the beginning of a “flawed cellphone quantity” rip-off, which is more and more getting used to steal cash and knowledge from victims. I personally have been despatched variations on this theme: “Whats up!…
There’s a brand new star within the firmament of faux new: White Home Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt. Identified for her combative press conferences, Leavitt is on the middle of a twister of misinformation that’s being unfold on each side of the political spectrum. To set the document straight on two of probably the most viral…
We might earn a fee from hyperlinks on this web page. For April Fools’ Day, I assumed I would look into the fascinating story of a significant supply of one of many longest-lasting and broadly believed conspiracy theories in American historical past. In accordance with a 2023 YouGov ballot, 54% of People consider that Lee…