New group seeks to combat misinformation about misinformation Platforms are rooting out posts and videos that spread unfounded conspiracy theories. But many of them are conspiracy theories about conspiracy theories. Ken Kellerman of the Institute for Truth in Truth has been tracking online stories for the last six years. But as political differences and echo-chamber … READ MORE
Will Join Forces with Teddy Roosevelt and Run For President! Scores of Americans assembled in Chicago on Friday night to express their support for the theory that Betty White, the actress who died late last year at the age of 99, would return and join forces with a mummified Theodore Roosevelt to run for president. … READ MORE
Few Americans are as iconic as Cher. Over the decades, she has earned—and maintained—fame as a singer, an actress, a fashion trailblazer, and more. Times change, but she seems to change with them. And in recent years, she has become one of the most consistent sources of energy on social media. On Twitter, especially, where … READ MORE
RICHMOND, TX—Welford’s isn’t as big a fast-food chain or McDonald’s, Burger King, or Wendy’s—it’s not even as big as Hardee’s or Whataburger. But it has something in common with its bigger brothers, and it’s not afraid to admit it. There’s a demon on every single hamburger. Josephine Maxwell, a manager at the Welford’s on Crabb … READ MORE
Real rocks were involved—they were cavemen! Who invented rock and roll? Was it Chuck Berry? Ike Turner? Roy Brown? You’ll have to go back much further than that. Scientists digging in the north of Spain have retrieved genomic segments of four young adult cavemen who are, as it turns out, more than 8,000 years old. … READ MORE
Is he in your world or are you in his? The world around you is filled with art. There are paintings in museums, songs coming out of headphones, movies on TV, books in bookstores. But what about the things that don’t look like art? Some of them are art, too. Just ask the Silent Rider. … READ MORE
SMILE AWAY Marsha Vickers was never happy with her smile. “I knew I had a weird bite,” she said. “My front and bottom teeth don’t quite touch.” But the Providence lawyer thought that was just the way things would always be. “Here I am in my life,” she said. “I have my career, a husband, … READ MORE
LEGENDARY ROCK BAND WAS BLONDSTRADAMUS!! The 1980 Blondie song, “Rapture,” hailed in its time as a pioneering hybrid of disco, New Wave, funk, and hip-hop, is now in the headlines again—this time for predicting a brutal alien attack. Richard Angelos, 44, of Union City, had just left his job as a bartender on the night of May … READ MORE
“Who Knows Me Better?” She Says A Maine woman says that she never had a good relationship—until the smartphone era. But the love connection that finally made her happy wasn’t a man or woman she met texting on her phone. It was her phone! Woman Marries her phone. Melissa Ingle, 29, says that she always … READ MORE
Welcome to Trevor Heights An entire city of 11,000 is flourishing in the most unlikely of places: inside Trevor Noah’s hair. The city, Trevor Heights, was founded in 2017 by Howard Kenilworth, a tiny man, nearly microscopic. “We needed a place to live,” he said. “I was moving from place to place with my family. … READ MORE