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These are two examples of satirical and fake news sites that deliver news with distorted or false information, biased viewpoints and fabricated facts:

To confuse and add to the misleading of readers, World News Daily Report mixes some true stories with their fake ones. Their disclaimer starts with a large headline reading "NEWS YOU CAN TRUST," however, when you scroll to the bottom of the page, it reads:

WNDRshall not be responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by website users or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in this website or by any technical or human error which may occur. WNDR assumes however all responsibility for thesatiricalnature of its articles and for the fictional nature oftheir content. All characters appearing in the articlesin this website even those based on real people areentirely fictionalandany resemblance between them and any persons, living, dead, or undead is purelya miracle. (http://worldnewsdailyreport.com/disclaimer_/)

https://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/

Your help is needed to save the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus from extinction! Visit the official site to learn more about this elusive species, what you can do help, and sharesitghingsofthis temperate rainforestcephalopods.

It is pretty obvious that this clever and entertaining website is fake. It is not intended to be misleading, but asatirical site for a fictional animal that gained a surprise following.

These internet links are provided to you as a courtesy. Walden University, LLC. (Walden) does not own or operate and is in no way responsible for the content of the web sites to which you will be directed upon accessing the links. Walden makes no representations or warranties as to the sites content, does not attest to the accuracy or propriety of any information located there and does not endorse the sites or information on the sites in any way.

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Examples of Fake News - Fact Check: How to decipher online ...

In November 2016, Stanford University researchers made an alarming discovery: across the US, many students cant tell the difference between a reported news article, a persuasive opinion piece, and a corporate ad. This lack of media literacy makes young people vulnerable to getting duped by fake news which can have real consequences.

Want tostrengthen your own ability to tell real news from fake news? Start by asking these five questions of any news item:

Who wrote it? Real news contains the real byline of a real journalist dedicated to the truth. Fake news (including sponsored content and traditional corporate ads) does not. Once you find the byline, look at the writers bio. This can help you identify whether the item youre reading is a reported news article (written by a journalist with the intent to inform), a persuasive opinion piece (written by an industry expert with a point of view), or something else entirely.

What claims does it make? Real news like these Pulitzer Prize winning articles will include multiple primary sources when discussing a controversial claim. Fake news may include fake sources, false urls, and/or alternative facts that can be disproven through further research. When in doubt, dig deeper. Facts can be verified.

When was it published? Look at the publication date. If its breakingnews, be extra careful.Use this tipsheet to decode breaking news.

Where was it published? Real news is published by trustworthy media outlets with a strong factchecking record, such as the BBC, NPR,ProPublica, Mother Jones, and Wired. (To learn more about any media outlet, look at their About page and examine their published body of work.) If you get your news primarily via social media, try to verify that the information is accurate before you share it. (On Twitter, for example, you might look for the blue verified checkmark next to a media outlet name to doublecheck a publication source before sharing a link.)

How does it make you feel? Fake news, like all propaganda, is designed to make you feel strong emotions. So if you read a news item that makes you feel super angry, pause and take a deep breath. Then, doublecheck the items claims by comparing it to the news on any three of the media outlets listed above and decide for yourself if the item is real news or fake news. Bottom line: Dont believe everything you read. There is no substitute for critical thinking.

If you get in the habit of asking all 5 of these questions whenever you read a news article, then your basic news literacy skills will start to grow stronger. However, these are just the basics! To dive deeper into news and media literacy, watch the TED-Ed Lesson: How to choose your news.To find out more about what students need, read the Stanford University report,published here.

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For Rohit Chandra, vice president of engineering at Yahoo, more humans in the loop would help. I see a need in the market to develop standards, he says. "We cant fact-check every story, but there must be enough eyes on the content that we know the quality bar stays high.

Google is also helping fact-checking organisations like Full Fact, which is developing new technologies that can identify and even correct false claims. Full Fact is creating an automated fact-checker that will monitor claims made on TV, in newspapers, in parliament or on the internet.

Initially it will be targeting claims that have already been fact-checked by humans and send out corrections automatically in an attempt to shut down rumours before they get started. As artificial intelligence gets smarter, the system will also do some fact-checking of its own.

For a claim like crime is rising, it is relatively easy for a computer to check, says Moy. We know where to get the crime figures and we can write an algorithm that can make a judgement about whether crime is rising. We did a demonstration project last summer to prove we can automate the checking of claims like that. The challenge is going to be writing tools that can check specific types of claims, but over time it will become more powerful.

What would Watson do?

It is an approach being attempted by a number of different groups around the world. Researchers at the University of Mississippi and Indiana University are both working on an automated fact-checking system. One of the worlds most advanced AIs has also had a crack at tackling this problem. IBM has spent several years working on ways that its Watson AI could help internet users distinguish fact from fiction. They built a fact-checker app that could sit in a browser and use Watsons language skills to scan the page and give a percentage likelihood of whether it was true. But according to Ben Fletcher, senior software engineer at IBM Watson Research who built the system, it was unsuccessful in tests - but not because it couldnt spot a lie.

We got a lot of feedback that people did not want to be told what was true or not, he says. At the heart of what they want, was actually the ability to see all sides and make the decision for themselves. A major issue most people face without knowing it is the bubble they live in. If they were shown views outside that bubble they would be much more open to talking about them.

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Lies, propaganda and fake news: A challenge for our age - BBC

This report is part of ongoing coverage of the Russia-Ukraine war.Visit our dedicated pagefor more on this topic.

In mid-March, as the Russian invasion of Ukraine crept into its third week, an unusual video started making the rounds on social media and was even broadcast on the television channel Ukraine 24 due to the efforts of hackers.

The video appeared to show Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, stilted with his head moving and his body largely motionless, calling on the citizens of his country to stop fighting Russian soldiers and to surrender their weapons. He had already fled Kyiv, the video claimed.

Except, those werent the words of the real Zelenskyy. The video was a deepfake, or content constructed using artificial intelligence. In a deepfake, individuals train computers to mimic real people to make what appears to be an authentic video. Shortly after the deepfake was broadcast, it was debunked by Zelenskyy himself, removed from prominent online sources like Facebook and YouTube, and ridiculed by Ukrainians for its poor quality, according to the Atlantic Council.

However, just because the video was quickly discredited doesnt mean it didnt cause harm. In a world increasingly politically polarized, in which consumers of media may believe information that reinforces their biases, regardless of the contents apparent legitimacy, deepfakes pose a significant threat, warns Northeastern University computer science and philosophy professor Don Fallis.

Left to right: Don Fallis, Northeastern University computer science and philosophy professor; and David Lazer, distinguished professor of political science and computer and information science. Courtesy photo and Photo by Adam Glanzman/Northeastern University

Its sort of interesting the respect in which it wasnt a particularly high-quality deepfake. There were all sorts of indicators that the individual consumer of information might think, This doesnt look right, Fallis says about the deepfake of Zelenskyy. That being said, with all of these sources of misinformation, no matter how credible the information looks, if you have a strong leaning toward a particular viewpoint, if you receive information confirming that pre-existing bias, the source of that informationand the plausibility of that informationmay not matter.

In his research, Falliswho studies epistemology, or the theory of knowledgetries to put modern issues, like deepfakes and fake news, into the larger philosophical context of how individuals acquire and digest true knowledge, as well as misinformation.

In 2018, he co-authored an article, titled, Fake news is counterfeit news, with Northeastern philosophy professor Kay Mathiesen. The article looked at the threat to democracy and knowledge that fake news poses and sought to define the concept. Two years later, he wrote an article about deepfakes, The Epistemic Threat of Deepfakes, in which he concluded that deepfakes can lead to false beliefs, undermine the justification for true beliefs, and prevent people from acquiring true beliefs.

Fallis argues both fake news and deepfakes have the negative effect of delegitimizing real news. He says they decrease the amount of true information available, reduce consumers trust in authentic media, and put an added burden on fact-checkers to authenticate the vast amount of content online.

In the case of fake news, youre creating this online presence thats supposed to look like a legitimate news site, Fallis says. Similarly, in the case of deepfakes, youre creating video and audio that are also supposed to look like legit media.

Additionally, in combination with tools used to collect individual users personal information en masse, deepfakes also can be used maliciously to target large audiences and manipulate them by playing on their ingrained biases, Fallis says.

It may not just be this one killer technology, he says. Its not like deepfakes are going to be the one thing that takes us over the cliff. Its a whole suite of potentially problematic technology.

Increased political division has a similar impact on the way in which people interpret fake news, where users are clearly seeking out and accepting information thats compatible with their prior biases, notes Northeastern political science and computer sciences professor David Lazer. However, its unclear just how much one drops their critical-thinking skills when encountering media that reinforces their worldview.

Certainly, weve seen an increased polarization in the publics opinions, and thats clearly one of the factors that may be at play with the spread of misinformation, Lazer says. Its quite plausible that the political polarization and spread of misinformation are going hand in hand, but thats an area of needed research.

Director of Northeasterns Lazer Lab, which conducts research on social influence and networks, Lazers studies focus primarily on the proliferation of misinformation on social media. In 2019, he co-authored a study on the prevalence of fake news on Twitter during the 2016 presidential election cycle.

Deepfake technology is also quite relevant to his studies, Lazer says, but there needs to be more research on the different types of misinformation, how they spread, and their psychological impact on consumers of media. The rise in political polarization and its impact on the consumption of media is also a high-priority area of study, he adds.

We can certainly say over the last 40 years there has been increased polarization of many kinds, and thats concerning, Lazer says.

Beyond the issue of users failing to question the deepfakes they come across if the content confirms their existing worldview, the technology poses other significant concerns.

One of the most problematic uses of the technology is when an individuals likeness, typically a womans, is manipulated and put on a sexually explicit video, making it appear as if the individual they are targeting is participating in the sexual activity, says Marc Berkman, the executive director of the Organization for Social Media Safety, a nonprofit dedicated to making social media safe through advocacy and education.

Additionally, as in the case of the deepfake of Zelenskyy, the world is witnessing the technologys political impact, Berkman says. Deepfakes can potentially interfere with democratic elections and be used as propaganda to sow division and doubt, he says.

Fallis and Berkman emphasize the importance of users cultivating critical-thinking skills when venturing online. One way for people to protect themselves against deepfakes is to engage in safe social-media use: Approach content, particularly news, with a critical eye.

The Organization for Social Media Safety is currently supporting media training in public schools, helping children understand news sources so they can take a non-partisan approach to evaluating and understanding the credibility of content.

Its incredibly important for our democracy to understand what is real and what is not, Berkman says. Limiting time on social media to healthy amounts is also important, so people can avoid deepfakes used for propaganda purposes.

However, Fallis and Berkman note, individual efforts cant replace structural change in businesses and governments aimed at combating the proliferation of this potentially dangerous technology.

Social-media giants, like Facebook, have adopted policies vowing to remove deepfakes from their platforms if they meet certain criteria, and some state governments, like Californias, have adopted laws imposing civil liability on creators of intentionally harmful deepfakes.

In California, Berkman says, his organization is working on getting a state law passed that would also impose criminal punishment on the creators of malicious pornographic deepfakes, with the hope that this kind of law expands to other states and that the federal government adopts similar legislation.

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The Buccaneers are seeing that April 1st is the worst day for sports news ever.

Unfortunately, the childish game of pranking people on April 1st is not only tied to schools. Professional athletes and reporters also get in on the fun every year, and this often leads to plenty of misinformation as they report wild trades or signings are happening.

This is exactly what happened today for Buccaneers fans today with a hot name this offseason.

While the initial photo looked exciting for a team that already has a lot of former Patriots players on the roster, Julian Edelmans report from earlier today is not true. He is not joining the Buccaneers. Yet.

Edelman wouldnt be the first player to follow Tom Brady to the Bucs. Rob Gronkowski and Logan Ryan show that Bradys reach goes far beyond what rational moves look like, and this offseason has done plenty to fan the rumor flames about Edelman rejoining his former quarterback.

Workout videos of Brady and Edelman started these rumors weeks ago, and an announcement like this really makes sense against that backdrop. Still, today is April Fools Day. No announcements make sense on a day like this.

This report would have a lot more credibility if the Bucs were the ones to put the information out there. The absence of any legitimate acknowledgment from the Buccaneers or their writers tells a clear story about the lack of fire associated with this smoke.

Still, the idea that Edelman could still join the Bucs is not far-fetched. Brady could always use more hands after the lack of depth we saw at the end of last season, and even time out of the NFL and apart wont be enough to slow this duo down.

The Buccaneers and Brady would be more than happy to have this report come true, but it isnt happening today.

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Dave Faries here, still chuckling over the Weeklys little April Fools jokes. No, Alvarado Street Brewery is not dropping beer in favor of wine coolers. Nor is Pebble Beach suddenly embracing the homeless community and converting the ritzy Inn at Spanish Bay into housing as part of a Homekey program.

Its April 1, when even news organizations succumb to the urge to play pranks we hope readers find amusing once they catch on. Such reporting can be obvious hoaxes. We think its clear from the beginning that no sane brewmaster would try to revive the wine cooler craze. Here at the Weekly, we dont have the resources for a stunt the BBC famously pulled, reporting with visuals on Switzerlands bumper spaghetti harvest one year.

April Fools stories can also be written in such a way they appear to be accurateat least until the outlandish details mount. Sports Illustrated once featured a baseball prospect named Sidd Finch who showed serious promise. His background was just obscure enough, commentary from baseball scouts and photos all came together so seamlessly, that many readers failed to catch obvious fabrications, such as his 168mph fastball.

Using satire or parody is a relatively harmless form of fake news. Entire publicationsThe Onion, The Journal of Irreproducible Resultshave been built around humor packed in a reserved format. Only the helplessly gullible would fall for The Onions jibes. Neil Armstrongs first words when he stepped onto the lunar surface in the publications backdated July 21, 1969 issue? Holy living fuck!

Supermarket tabloids teeter between the ridiculousWorld War Two Bomber Found On Moon (to continue the lunar theme)and damaging. The tabs have faced many lawsuits over the decades, but few are the informed readers who take them seriously. Advertising sections disguised as news also tip on this border, perhaps less dangerously so.

Much more harmful forms of fake news exist: Outright fabrication of news stories, images and video. Since the advent of internet-based news aggregations sites and social media, there has been a flood of fake news designed to exploit fears, confirm bigotry or false beliefs, support or slander political leaders and parties, stoke hatred and tear apart the societal seams that bring people together.

Fake news did not start with the communication revolution, of course. Headline shockers have always sold papers, and people with a cause have always been willing to distort the facts in their favor. Indeed, the phrase dates back to the 1890s and the height of yellow journalism, but the practice is much older. Sam Adamscousin of John Adams and a determined advocate of revolution from English rule during Americas colonial dayspenned many a published broadside. According to Eric Burns, historian and author of Infamous Scribblers: The Founding Fathers and the Rowdy Beginnings of American Journalism, Adams form of fake news might well have been the best fiction written in the English language for the entire period between Laurance Sterne and Charles Dickens.

Whether thats high or low praise, it was brutally effective at the time. A favorite target of fake news was Massachusetts Royal Governor Thomas Hutchinson. Spurred on by the revolutionary press, a mob torched Hutchinsons house in 1765. An article in the Smithsonian compared the cause and effect of fabricated articles then to 2016, when ridiculous posts alleged that a D.C.-area pizza restaurant was a front for a child trafficking ring operated by Hillary Clinton.

This is a notion any sensible person would readily dismiss. By the 2016 election, however, so much misinformation had been hurled around social media, and so much distrust sown about accurate media outlets, that those who wish to cast the other side as pure evil bit on the lurid tale. Despite the fact that real news sources like New York Times and Washington Post had easily exposed the fiction, a North Carolina man steeped in fake news that he now believed armed himself with a rifle and a handgun and rushed to their rescue, his AR-15 blazing.

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His purpose may have been noble, but his mission was clearly flawed. Once he realized the entire story was false, he dropped his weapons and surrendered without incident.

The Center for Information Technology and Society at UC Santa Barbara presents an informative overview of the issue and how fake news as applied then differs from nowas well as why so many people are swayed by obvious distortion. The speed at which it is spread and the magnitude of its influence places it in a different category from its historical cousins, the CITS reports. The combination of ideological interests and technology have made foreign agentsRussians, but other nations play, tooor individuals adept at social media and at manipulating images, videos, voice and documents the jockeys of fake news volume, rather than rag newspapers. They give certain pundits with no ethical limits the fodder they require. And these individuals are willing to dive deep into distortion.

But scholars at CITS believe that how fake news is disseminated today is in part to blame for how readily some people receive it. Social media is source agnostic, the document notes. That is, they collect and present news stories from a wide variety of outlets, regardless of the quality, reliability or political leaning of the original source. In addition, fake news plucked from an unreliable site can be easily shared. Followers of Ann Coulter were dupedas she clearly waswhen she tweeted a false report that Mexico had lowered its age of sexual consent to 12.

Unfortunately, fake news can seep into mainstream outlets, if journalists are not careful. Recently it was revealed that Facebook had planted false and damning stories about its fast-growing rival TikTok. Some local and national news organizations took the bait. Some years ago I shared drinks with a Fox News reporter who was based in Tel Aviv, but vacationing in Prague where I worked at the time. He related how Palestinians were perplexed how a reporter could work for a network they recognized as distorting the news. I tell them my reporting is accurate, he said. I cant help what they do with it in the studio.

It was a disturbing cop out. But as historian Terri Halperin told the Smithsonian when discussing the pitfalls that come with an independent media, free of government control, I think [James] Madison was probably the best on that one when he basically said you have to tolerate some sedition in order to have free communication. You cant root out all.

So maybe were stuck with it. Our only defense is to lean on credible sources of information, even when politicians stung by accurate reporting or people exposed to ideas they would wish to avoid lash back and accuse the truth of being false.

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Is it fun to celebrate April Fools Day in the age of rampant fake news? - Monterey County Weekly

No, Molly-Mae isnt taking over from Lord Sugar as the host of The Apprentice

Some people say that in the year of our lord 2022 were past fooling people with fake news stories on April Fools Day, but I say lets just let people have a little bit of fun for a mere few hours on one day out of the year. The world can be a pretty grim place and we all need a pick me up from time to time.

From saying that students from Surrey were being banned from applying to one uni, to another selling university-branded flares, across The Tab its been jokes all round and weve been mugging you lot right off. If your uni isnt on this list youre boring, soz.

Here are all the headlines across The Tab this April Fools Day 2022 that we got you with, you foolish, foolish April fools:

The latest series of The Apprentice has just finished, so we decided it would be a nice opportunity to announce Lord Sugar would be stepping down from hosting the next series to be replaced by the one and only Molly-Mae Hague. The ex-Love Islander currently using her 24 hours in the day as creative director of PrettyLittleThing, but when heading up The Apprentice shed move the contestants from London to a luxury villa in Spain. Except its not happening, obvs.

Over in the world of Netflix there was another new TV show host announced! We revealed that controversial cast member of Love Is Blind season two, Abhishek Shake Chatterjee, will be shows new host. Season three has already been filmed, so Shake would be taking the reins from Nick and Vanessa Lachey for Love Is Blind season four. Shake told The Tab hes extremely excited about the new role, and cant wait to get back to the pods to film. He says hell be a guru for the newbies on the show, offering dating advice, and hes looking forward to seeing who steps into his villain shoes. Well, Shake can still see this, but it will be from the comfort of his own sofa along with everyone else.

Nothing says Edin-rah quite like flares, so The Edinburgh Tab designed its very own Edinburgh Uni branded flares for the university gift shop to sell. They even featured a small, discreet pocket at the top perfect for stashing your baccy in so you never loose it during those library smoking area revision-break cigs, it said. At a mere 30 price tag theyd be a bargain, but they do not in fact exist.

Nottingham concocted a leaked email from uni staff that said they planned to ban students from Surrey applying there, in an attempt to stop the uni being overrun with Southerners and increase the diversity of the student body. Obviously this would never happen the Surrey mummies and daddys would never allow it dahling x

It seems like every uni in the country has a specific animal its students are obsessed with Southampton has rats; Sussex has seagulls; and York has a very tall duck called Long Boi who lives on campus and has almost 50,000 followers on Instagram. Very normal behaviour, so would it be *that* far fetched for the University of York to be changing its logo to feature him as an ambassador of the university? Yes, yes it would be absolutely quackers.

Many Bristol students believe they belong in iconic TV show Skins, so Bristol revealed that Skins is being rebooted and producers are looking for Bristol students to help take part as extras. But put down your Kohl eyeliner, ripped tights and baccy sadly, Skins isnt back, huns x

Its a long-held stereotype, so London decided to say that Imperial students would now be required to take a new social skills module called Social Dexterity to help them reintegrate. It would be implemented from the start of next uni year and compulsory for all first years for years to come but alas, its all made up.

Leeds had another leaked document which said the University of Leeds and Leeds Beckett were set to merge from September this year, to become The Universities at Leeds. Both current students and incoming freshers at both unis would receive lectures and seminars on both campuses from the next academic year, with libraries and halls open to all students at both unis. Dont fret Leeds students, such an unthinkable thing would never happen the fake logo does look great, though.

Warwick said the university had announced the launch of a new interdisciplinary module based on the work of Taylor Swift. Content would include the romantic relationships of T Swift (psychology and sociology), her impact on trends and consumerism (economics), and the legal issues of song ownership (law). This may be Warwick students Wildest Dreams, but its not happening soz x

Theres nothing Brum students love more than Peaky Blinders, which is set in their city, so Birmingham decided to say one of their uni buildings was being renamed Tommy Shelby Tower to pay respect to the TV show. A blue plaque would also be erected outside the tower to recognise Shelby, and there would be a grand unveiling ceremony with a Peaky Blinders chic dress code. Hold on to your caps before you go to Birmingham this wasnt real.

Newcastle said that both their uni and Northumbria had pledged to stop selling baked bean tins on campus, to combat the beaning crisis. If you didnt know, beaning is when people pour a tin of beans on someones doorstep usually people record doing this and put it on TikTok, and the craze has taken over Newcastle student areas.

More evidence that uni students really love their animals, Cambridge said the cows that live in Kings College were set to be given honorary fellowships by the college. There was going to be a ceremony in their honour next term this would even mean the cows were now allowed to walk on the grass but it was not yet clear if the cows would now have the teaching responsibilities normally required of fellows. Totally real Cambridge student April McDonald (see what they did there?) said: Im sure dodging the cow pats will become an essential part of my workout routine.

Yet another uni obsessed with animals, in Lincoln it was the turn of swans. Lincoln said the university is planning on unveiling a swan sculpture on campus to celebrate its 21st anniversary. There wont be a swan statue, but if any Lincoln students are upset and want to see a swan they wont have to look far, because swans are everywhere in the city.

If theres anything Cardiff students live for, its Varsity. Cardiff said that its annual Varsity against Swansea, which already hasnt happened for the past two years due to Covid, was cancelled as the unis took an anti-competition stance in order to foster a better relationship between them. Luckily for them, Welsh Varsity is obviously still going ahead.

Lancasters own sporting event Roses, against the University of York, is coming up this month, so Lancaster decided to say Bowland Tower, a building on campus with student accommodation in it, was being painted red in its honour. One made-up student, who Lancs said used to live there, said: Im literally in a state of shock, it just feels like a really big thing to commit to. How long is it going to be red for?

Oxford said that Collections exams, which take place at the start of every term, would now also be added on to the end of terms in an attempt to avoid lack of focus at the end of term. A fake leaked email said students are careless in the last week of term, even saying there had been a student go into a 9am tutorial in a leather bralette, straight from a night out. While this would be an iconic thing to do in a seminar, it didnt happen, and neither are the extra exams.

Over in Manchester, they said the uni was planning on awarding Matt Hancock an honorary degree for his dedication to the NHS and contribution to the British fashion industry. They were also apparently looking to give one to someone off Love Island to balance it out. Its not happening, but The Manchester Tab said the ceremony would include a cheese and wine event and all those in attendance would be given a black turtle neck. Sad I cant go x

Sheffield students love nothing more than the Arctic Monkeys, so The Tab Sheffield said that Sheffield Hallam uni was renaming their Owen Building The Alex Building, in honour of Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex Turner. It was said to be intended to attract more students but its not happening, clearly.

Glasgow said one of their unis halls had won an award for being the UKs best student accommodation of 2022 but as if any halls could ever beat the boujee colleges of Oxbridge? Those people literally live in castles, huns. Here is a picture of the Glasgow halls which was said to have won the award, for context:

Brookes said the uni was going to give students free snake bites today at their campus bar, to make up for the lectures students have missed due to the strikes. Snake bites are a favourite drink of Brookes students, but they obvs wont be getting them for free off the uni.

Gotcha! Here are all the ridiculous ways we fooled you this April Fools Day

Heres how we mugged you off for April Fools 2020 at universities all over the UK

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April Fools' Day 2022: Fake and made-up news headlines that fooled you - The Tab