these completely fabricated stories
surprisingly managed to convince very
large audiences
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
biggest fake news stories before we
begin we publish new videos every day
so be sure to subscribe for more great
content for this list we’re looking at
popular viral news stories that were not
true I won’t do it tonight because I
don’t want to cause any controversy is
that okay number 10
protester was paid to protest Trump
rally this article was ostensibly
intended by its creator hoax writer Paul
Horner to be a satirical piece poking
fun at the popular conspiracy that
protesters disrupting Trump rallies were
paid large sums of money appearing on a
fake ABC News website in July 2016 the
story was about an Arizona man who
supposedly admitted to protesting a
Trump rally earlier that March for a
3500 dollar payday after answering a
Craigslist ad among those who fell for
the story were Trump’s son Eric and
Trump’s former campaign manager Corey
Lewandowski who both retweeted the
article number nine planet nibiru set to
destroy Earth four years there have been
various doomsday predictions that Nibiru
also known as Planet X was going to
crash into Earth ending life on this
planet as we know it one such absurd
prediction that received widespread
attention was made in 2017 by
numerologist David Mead who said Nibiru
would hit earth on September 23rd of
that year as the fulfillment of a Bible
verse found in the Gospel of Luke
despite other fake news stories that
have said NASA has identified Nibiru
nASA has repeatedly stated that no such
planet exists it ought to be
yeah but it isn’t number eight
rupaul accuses Trump of sexual
misconduct the satirical website world
news daily report ran this story where
RuPaul was thrown in among Trump’s many
accusers following the release of the
infamous Access Hollywood tape according
to the story the alleged assault took
place at a 1995 party that was held for
the cult classic to Wong foo RuPaul who
had attended the party was in the
bathroom when Trump who didn’t know
RuPaul was a man
aggressively approached him and grabbed
his private parts when Trump found out
what he was actually grabbing he became
both humiliated and infuriated ya know
number 7
woman poops on boss’s desk after winning
the lottery if you hate your job winning
the lottery can be a liberating
experience as shown in this tale of
revenge featured in the fake news
website the valley report a 41 year old
woman wins a three million dollar
jackpot greets her supervisor inside his
office and then gives her two weeks
notice in the form of a number to
synergy I don’t need to take your crap
anymore
my cousin’s website went public today
and I made it pile of money on the IPO
so you know what I think of this whole
damn company after the unnamed woman is
arrested she states on record how glad
she was to tell her boss off in such a
graphic way even though the article is
fake it uses a real-life mugshot from an
unrelated arrest number 6 Balloon Boy
the heaney family of Fort Collins
Colorado gained a lot of public
attention in 2009 when the youngest
child six year-old Falcon was thought to
be trapped in a balloon that floated
miles high up in the air when it was
discovered that he was safe Falcon was
given the nickname balloon boy
unfortunately during an interview with
the heaney family falcon accidentally
let the truth slip out that the
harrowing incident was fake we show both
parents received jail time for the hoax
though the father Richard claims the
weather balloon incident was entirely
true it wasn’t it was never a hoax not
once not ever
number five FBI agent in Clinton email
leaks died
in murder-suicide during the 2016
election there was great interest in the
FBI investigation of Hillary Clinton’s
email server the Denver Guardian a site
which falsely referred to itself as
Denver’s oldest news source posted this
article about an FBI agent responsible
for investigating Clinton’s emails who
later killed his wife and then himself
however it didn’t take long for the
Denver Post Denver’s biggest real-life
newspaper to expose the story and the
flimsy news site as fake including the
address the Guardian gave for its
location which turned out to merely be a
parking lot number four Pope Francis
endorses Trump in July 2016 the later
revealed to be fake TV news station WTO
e5 broke the story of Pope Francis’s
endorsement which they claimed was a
first in the history of the papacy given
that Francis and Trump are almost
complete opposites and had previously
feuded over whether Trump’s border wall
proposal was Christian this story sounds
ridiculous a person who thinks only
about building walls wherever they may
be and not a building bridges is not
Christian the Pope said but with 960,000
engagements on Facebook it was one of
the most popular fake news stories of
2016 responding to the story in a press
conference Francis dismissed claims that
he endorsed a presidential candidate as
he found faults with both Trump and his
opponent Hillary Clinton the Pope has
since denounced fake news calling it
quote a serious sin number three the
bowling-green massacre there are some
stories that are false there are some
stories I read them like what are they
talking about where does this happen to
justify president Trump’s travel ban for
the residents of seven Muslim majority
countries his advisor Kellyanne Conway
cited how Barack Obama tightened
immigration after two Iraqis had carried
out a terrorist attack in Bowling Green
Kentucky Conway called the incident the
bowling-green massacre and chastised the
media for not covering it and there were
the master masterminds behind the
bowling-green massacre people don’t know
that because it didn’t get covered it’s
just one problem
the ball
Green Massacre never happened and what
Conway was actually supposedly referring
to was a 2011 incident where two
suspects were caught trying to smuggle
weapons and money to al-qaeda
Conway later claimed she misspoke
whoopsie because I felt really badly
about that but I am glad that I I felt
badly about that and I apologized in
there rectified number two
Obama bans the Pledge of Allegiance in
schools in this utterly made-up article
that ran in August of 2016
President Obama signed executive order
13502 resons Obama gave for hating the
Pledge of Allegiance for that he claimed
it was quote divisive and quote contrary
to America’s deepest held values
according to BuzzFeed this story had the
highest Facebook engagement of any fake
news story in 2016 not really
maybe it’s classified before we unveil
our number one pick
here are some dishonorable mentions
[Music]
number one pizza gate when WikiLeaks
dumped a collection of emails belonging
to Hillary Clinton campaign share John
Podesta in October 2016
Clinton opponents were hoping to find a
salacious scandal when some opponents
went through the emails they claimed
they found coded messages about pizza
that stood for the child’s sex ring soon
after right-wing media outlets were
accusing noted Washington DC pizza
parlor comet ping-pong of being a hub
for pedophilic sex slavery this
grotesque absurdity resulted in much
harassment and eventually a North
Carolina man bringing an assault rifle
into the restaurant and firing a shot
fake news has consequences do you agree
with our picks check out these other
great clips from WatchMojo and subscribe
for new videos every day
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surprisingly managed to convince very
large audiences
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
biggest fake news stories before we
begin we publish new videos every day
so be sure to subscribe for more great
content for this list we’re looking at
popular viral news stories that were not
true I won’t do it tonight because I
don’t want to cause any controversy is
that okay number 10
protester was paid to protest Trump
rally this article was ostensibly
intended by its creator hoax writer Paul
Horner to be a satirical piece poking
fun at the popular conspiracy that
protesters disrupting Trump rallies were
paid large sums of money appearing on a
fake ABC News website in July 2016 the
story was about an Arizona man who
supposedly admitted to protesting a
Trump rally earlier that March for a
3500 dollar payday after answering a
Craigslist ad among those who fell for
the story were Trump’s son Eric and
Trump’s former campaign manager Corey
Lewandowski who both retweeted the
article number nine planet nibiru set to
destroy Earth four years there have been
various doomsday predictions that Nibiru
also known as Planet X was going to
crash into Earth ending life on this
planet as we know it one such absurd
prediction that received widespread
attention was made in 2017 by
numerologist David Mead who said Nibiru
would hit earth on September 23rd of
that year as the fulfillment of a Bible
verse found in the Gospel of Luke
despite other fake news stories that
have said NASA has identified Nibiru
nASA has repeatedly stated that no such
planet exists it ought to be
yeah but it isn’t number eight
rupaul accuses Trump of sexual
misconduct the satirical website world
news daily report ran this story where
RuPaul was thrown in among Trump’s many
accusers following the release of the
infamous Access Hollywood tape according
to the story the alleged assault took
place at a 1995 party that was held for
the cult classic to Wong foo RuPaul who
had attended the party was in the
bathroom when Trump who didn’t know
RuPaul was a man
aggressively approached him and grabbed
his private parts when Trump found out
what he was actually grabbing he became
both humiliated and infuriated ya know
number 7
woman poops on boss’s desk after winning
the lottery if you hate your job winning
the lottery can be a liberating
experience as shown in this tale of
revenge featured in the fake news
website the valley report a 41 year old
woman wins a three million dollar
jackpot greets her supervisor inside his
office and then gives her two weeks
notice in the form of a number to
synergy I don’t need to take your crap
anymore
my cousin’s website went public today
and I made it pile of money on the IPO
so you know what I think of this whole
damn company after the unnamed woman is
arrested she states on record how glad
she was to tell her boss off in such a
graphic way even though the article is
fake it uses a real-life mugshot from an
unrelated arrest number 6 Balloon Boy
the heaney family of Fort Collins
Colorado gained a lot of public
attention in 2009 when the youngest
child six year-old Falcon was thought to
be trapped in a balloon that floated
miles high up in the air when it was
discovered that he was safe Falcon was
given the nickname balloon boy
unfortunately during an interview with
the heaney family falcon accidentally
let the truth slip out that the
harrowing incident was fake we show both
parents received jail time for the hoax
though the father Richard claims the
weather balloon incident was entirely
true it wasn’t it was never a hoax not
once not ever
number five FBI agent in Clinton email
leaks died
in murder-suicide during the 2016
election there was great interest in the
FBI investigation of Hillary Clinton’s
email server the Denver Guardian a site
which falsely referred to itself as
Denver’s oldest news source posted this
article about an FBI agent responsible
for investigating Clinton’s emails who
later killed his wife and then himself
however it didn’t take long for the
Denver Post Denver’s biggest real-life
newspaper to expose the story and the
flimsy news site as fake including the
address the Guardian gave for its
location which turned out to merely be a
parking lot number four Pope Francis
endorses Trump in July 2016 the later
revealed to be fake TV news station WTO
e5 broke the story of Pope Francis’s
endorsement which they claimed was a
first in the history of the papacy given
that Francis and Trump are almost
complete opposites and had previously
feuded over whether Trump’s border wall
proposal was Christian this story sounds
ridiculous a person who thinks only
about building walls wherever they may
be and not a building bridges is not
Christian the Pope said but with 960,000
engagements on Facebook it was one of
the most popular fake news stories of
2016 responding to the story in a press
conference Francis dismissed claims that
he endorsed a presidential candidate as
he found faults with both Trump and his
opponent Hillary Clinton the Pope has
since denounced fake news calling it
quote a serious sin number three the
bowling-green massacre there are some
stories that are false there are some
stories I read them like what are they
talking about where does this happen to
justify president Trump’s travel ban for
the residents of seven Muslim majority
countries his advisor Kellyanne Conway
cited how Barack Obama tightened
immigration after two Iraqis had carried
out a terrorist attack in Bowling Green
Kentucky Conway called the incident the
bowling-green massacre and chastised the
media for not covering it and there were
the master masterminds behind the
bowling-green massacre people don’t know
that because it didn’t get covered it’s
just one problem
the ball
Green Massacre never happened and what
Conway was actually supposedly referring
to was a 2011 incident where two
suspects were caught trying to smuggle
weapons and money to al-qaeda
Conway later claimed she misspoke
whoopsie because I felt really badly
about that but I am glad that I I felt
badly about that and I apologized in
there rectified number two
Obama bans the Pledge of Allegiance in
schools in this utterly made-up article
that ran in August of 2016
President Obama signed executive order
13502 resons Obama gave for hating the
Pledge of Allegiance for that he claimed
it was quote divisive and quote contrary
to America’s deepest held values
according to BuzzFeed this story had the
highest Facebook engagement of any fake
news story in 2016 not really
maybe it’s classified before we unveil
our number one pick
here are some dishonorable mentions
[Music]
number one pizza gate when WikiLeaks
dumped a collection of emails belonging
to Hillary Clinton campaign share John
Podesta in October 2016
Clinton opponents were hoping to find a
salacious scandal when some opponents
went through the emails they claimed
they found coded messages about pizza
that stood for the child’s sex ring soon
after right-wing media outlets were
accusing noted Washington DC pizza
parlor comet ping-pong of being a hub
for pedophilic sex slavery this
grotesque absurdity resulted in much
harassment and eventually a North
Carolina man bringing an assault rifle
into the restaurant and firing a shot
fake news has consequences do you agree
with our picks check out these other
great clips from WatchMojo and subscribe
for new videos every day
[Music]
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