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Some crazy tale involving a boyfriend, a cheating girlfriend, Narnia and a poo-tattoo has gone viral, with lots of media outlets claiming that some dude inked shit on his ladyfriend's back when he found out she was cheating. But! The Smoking Gun reports that the story is "Fake. Fake. Fake." Let your friends know. (Also, pretty sure that tattoo is supposed to be moths surrounding a flame.) More »
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During his fauxpology tour last week, Tom MacMaster, the straight American man who posed as Syrian lesbian blogger Amina Arraf, told The Guardian that he doesn't regret blogging as the "Gay Girl in Damascus," because, "To a large extent it's almost as though I were writing a novel." We wondered why he didn't just write a novel, but it turns out he already did! More »
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The revelation that the "Gay Girl In Damascus" was actually an American man in Edinburgh proved it's easy to post under a fake identity online. In fact, it's so easy that Tom MacMaster wasn't the only one. More »
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Last week, the blogosphere reacted with concern over the alleged kidnapping of Amina Araff, "an out lesbian blogger who wrote about her daily life in Damascus, Syria. More »
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Activists are calling for an investigation into the alleged kidnapping of Syrian blogger Amina Arraf. But others are investigating something else: whether she even exists. More »
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You know how one time in high school you made up a fake boy and IM'ed some girl you didn't like as "him" and asked her out on a date, but then you couldn't figure out how to keep things going so you just told her he moved to Florida? That, on a much grander scale, is what happened to Paula Bonhomme. More »
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There are many imposters on the internet, but someone did a really good job of pretending to be "Hailie Jade Mathers." Several reports have claimed that Hailie — who is now 15, but was just a wee thing in the 2004 video for "Mockingbird" — is in possession of a Twitter account. Pop Eater claimed the @Angry_Blonde Tweets are sent by the daughter of Marshall and Kim, and called her "surprisingly positive." (Example: "One of the best things in life is realizing you're perfectly happy without the thing you thought you needed the most.") The person tweeting from that account quotes Spongebob and has a crush on Chris Brown. But the real Hailie supposedly goes by the last name Scott, and NowPublic declares, "we believe that the (@Angry_Blonde) account is fake." According to E!, Eminem's publicist swears that Hailie has no Twitter account. At all. All we know is that it's a bad idea to piss off the dudes from D12. More »
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A Spanish woman who faked her own kidnapping told police that she wanted "to find out what her husband would be willing to do for her." More »
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The company is "aggressively investigating" the hoax. We can thank someone with the Twitter name @originalcjizzle for starting this whole thing; he later Tweeted, "I had no intention of things turning out this way," and has since deleted his account. More »
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Bethany Storro now faces theft charges in connection with her fake acid attack — and one writer says there was far more than individual racism at work in her false accusation. More »
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The acid attack hoaxer is just one in a line of women who have faked terrible things, in part to get attention. And while the result is often despicable, their motives can be complicated. More »
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Bethany Storro claimed a black woman had thrown acid in her face August 30. But now she's admitted she did the whole thing herself. The obvious question: why? More »
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You may have heard the story before: woman goes to Neiman-Marcus/Mrs. Fields, orders cookie, loves cookie, requests recipe, is told it's "two-fifty" and is shocked to get a credit-card statement for $250. For revenge, she shares with the world: More »
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Fame-hungry parents Richard and Mayumi Heene will plead guilty to charges resulting from the "balloon boy" hoax. Although they could potentially receive jail time, the prosecutor has recommended probation. [CNN] More »
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A recent article about an overweight woman who was told "I'm sorry, but you're too fat" by EasyJet airport security has been denounced as a hoax. However, EasyJet policy does allow workers to "suggest" fat passengers buy two tickets. [Telegraph] More »
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• Paris Hilton has another video in support of her nascent Presidential campaign and, this time, she's got Jeb Bartlett giving her advice. It's not as good as the first, but it just goes to show that President Bartlett was nothing without Josh. [Funny or Die]
• In other really important news, Madonna really doesn't want "Sarah Fucking Palin" at her party and doesn't appreciate the winking. [Huffington Post]
• And the Foo Fighters want McCain to stop using their song "My Hero." Man, does anyone listen to lyrics anymore?[WWLTV]
• McCain thinks we're all his "fellow prisoners." So do we, old man, so do we. [Think Progress]

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A reader sent us a link to something called Abortiontracker.com, a site that claims to have compiled "a comprehensive list of every woman who has had an abortion procedure performed in the United States and Canada, dating back to 1940." To get access to this alleged database, you need to pay $799 for a seven day pass to the site or up to $16,999 for unlimited access to "full names, complete addresses, unlimited contact information, false names used during operation procedures, reasons listed for abortions, known STDs at (and since) time of abortion, [and the] name of person believed to be the father." More »
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Did Hillary Clinton adviser Mickey Cantor slur the average Indiana voter as a "worthless white n-gger" while cameras were rolling? He says he did not. The director of the movie War Room, from which this new viral video is clipped, says he did not. This seems like a hoax perpetuated by the type of people who run Encyclopedia Dramatica, but I'll embed the video after the jump so you can decide for yourselves. Bonus discussion question: has it become acceptable to use the word "wigger"? I keep hearing it and feeling deeply conflicted, which is weird for me. [Wonkette] More »
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Remember Thomas Beatie, the pregnant transmale, who looks like a dude, but is with child like a lady? Well Beatie's neighbors in Oregon are calling bullshit on him, saying that the pregnancy is a fake. Ron Schlieper, who lives near Beatie in Bend, Oregon, told ABC News, "Quite frankly, I think it's a hoax. I saw him a few days ago, and he didn't look like that." The Advocate, the magazine that published Beatie's first-person account of his pregnancy, is standing behind him. "We asked Thomas to provide the name of his doctor, and she confirmed that he was pregnant and that his pregnancy is proceeding as it should," according to Advocate editor Anne Stockwell. Is he the Peggy Seltzer of pregnancy?? [Guanabee, ABC News] More »
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