The headline was: "CNN Purchases Industrial-Sized Washing Machine To Spin News Before Publication". Hard to miss.

Snopes addressing this like a serious story is surreal.

You'd think so, but the last couple of years have truly astonished me in terms of what I thought was common sense.

I am willing to bet a significant percentage of our population is truly incapable of critical thought, and not equipped to deal with the information age.

People are dumb.

I'd pay to be in a room of people who think that news is a tangible item that can be placed in a laundry machine.

This whole situation is ludicrous. The shill at snopes who wrote and published that is beyond the outer limit. I can believe that it was a mistake at Facebook, but it's got a lot of agenda looks to it.

Yeah, there are people who believe a lot of weird stuff. For instance, a small but significant group believes that fictional television shows are real, even ones with non-human characters (Sesame Street puppets, or cartoons, say).

Many actors have stories about meeting people who don't understand the difference between the actor and the character the actor plays. It happens all the time.

Nonetheless, we don't usually have "fact checkers" explaining to us that Kermit the Frog doesn't exist, nor do we generally have Facebook threatening a site because they've posted one of those popular "Kermit the Frog drinking tea" memes, and the "fact checkers" have pointed out that Kermit isn't a real frog, and that even real frogs generally don't drink tea.

For you and me sure. Check out Literally Unbelievable, social posts reacting to satire stories as if they are real. Seems like a lot of people fall for this stuff!

http://literallyunbelievable.org

About your reply to my removed comment- I think you missed my sarcasm and the edit. I am 100% for privacy and 101% for solving the root problem if you didn't get the hint. Won't mention here lest I get banned