Fake News International
Fake News
International has announced the nominees for the 2017 Fakies. 2016 was
undoubtedly one of the greatest years in the history of Fake News. Never before
has so much fake news affected so many people in so many ways.
From
predictions about the election in the United States to a disheartening story
about Santa, there’ve been lots of great accomplishments in the world of fake
news. Many will be recognized on April 1st in Macedonia when Fake News
International presents the Fakies for 2016.
The list of
nominees has not yet been finalized. Some categories have several nominees.
Others have only one. If you'd like to suggest a nominee, leave a comment. Here is the current
list of nominees for The 2016 Fakies.
Satire Website of the Year
Although it
would have been great to nominate all the terrific websites that have been
cranking out great satire, we had to narrow it down. These Fakie nominees have
been dishing it out very nicely.
The Onion
Daily Currant
World News
Daily Report
The Valley
Report
Fake Political Storyline of the Year
Hillary
Clinton would win the election and become President.
Trump voters were nothing but ignorant racist homophobes.
The election was rigged.
Trump voters were nothing but ignorant racist homophobes.
The election was rigged.
Real News Organization of the Year with the
most Fake News
Washington
Post
New York
Times
Fox News
MSNBC
Dishonorable Mentions: Buzzfeed and Huffington Post
Fake Journalist of the Year
Donna Brazile,
CNN’s part-timer, for giving Hillary Clinton the debate questions ahead of
time.
Martha Raddatz
of ABC News, who
could not hold back the tears as Hillary Clinton lost the election.
Anderson Cooper
for pretending to be objective while “moderating” one of the debates.
Dishonorable Mentions for Fake Hate Crime of the
Year
Yasmin
Seweid claimed she was verbally attacked three men on a train. She later
acknowledged that she made up her story.
A University
of Louisiana at Lafayette student claimed that she was accosted by two
white men who shouted racial slurs at her and ripped her headscarf off her
head. She has admitted to the Lafayette Police Department that she was lying.
Hopewell
Missionary Baptist Church in Greenville, Miss. was vandalized with graffiti
reading “Vote Trump.” The church was then nearly destroyed in a fire. The
perpetrator was Andrew McClinton, a black man who was a member of the church.
Funniest Bodily Function Headline of the
Year
There’s
almost nothing funnier than a good story about bodily functions going wrong.
"Woman
arrested for defecating on boss’ desk after winning the lottery" Dave
Weasel, The Valley Report
"Cinnamon
Roll Can Explodes Inside Man’s Butt During Shoplifting Incident" That
Viral Feed
"Florida
man dies in meth-lab explosion after lighting farts on fire" Dave
Weasel, The Valley Report
P.T. Barnum Award for Fake News Producer of
the Year
Paul Horner,
whose stories on Facebook and elsewhere reputedly helped to get Donald Trump
elected.
Dave Weasel
of The Valley Report
Balloon Boy Hoax of the Year Award
Before
Christmas, the story of a Santa
in Knoxille who claimed that a sick boy in a hospital died in his arms went
viral. After the story got popular, the original publisher, The Knoxville Sun, acknowledged
that none of the story could be verified. Naughty Santa!
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