Snapple's apparent carelessness may be alarming and even infuriating, but it isn't unique. I think most of them are actually false, which is amazing because it's not even hard to get crazy facts about the world. But now people believe Winston Churchill was born in a ladies room, or that babies are born without kneecaps.
They see it 10 times, so they think it must be true. There's a tendency to fully blame emerging technology for a litany of social ills, including the lies that people see and believe enough to share. You've heard the drumbeat: It's the Internet's fault we're lonely , dumb , sad , unoriginal , lying, narcissists. Twitter is dissolving our ability to focus! The decline of print is a sign of the apocalypse! The great thing about the new digital era is you can already find people fighting over whether something is true.
The thing about rabbit holes is they sometimes lead to a place where it seems nothing is true anymore. His words about the fluid and relative nature of reality take on a particular resonance in the context of hand-wringing over technology today. This article was produced by the Reuters Fact Check team. Read more about our fact-checking work here. Reuters Fact Check Updated. And a photo of a Snapple bottle cap with its signature "Real Fact" saying former President Donald Trump lost is among the latest additions to the discussion.
Some Americans continue to claim the election was "stolen" from Trump, despite President Joe Biden receiving over 7 million votes more than him, and the Justice Department concluding there was no election fraud that could have changed the outcome. Fact check: False claim from Trump about Maricopa County election database. On Twitter, one image has been retweeted nearly 15, times since it was posted May 9.
While the image may appear to depict a trademark Snapple "Real Fact", the company has said it's fake.
Snapple's "Real Facts" are normally light-hearted, trivia-like fun facts, like: "Chameleons can move both their eyes in different directions at the same time," or "U. A spokesperson at Keurig Dr. Mercury and Venus are the only planets in our solar system with no moon. Blueberries are one of the only natural foods that are truly blue in color.
Maine produces more wild blueberries than anywhere else in the world. Australia has 10, beaches; you could visit a new beach every day for more than 29 years. Males grunt and females hiss. The ostrich produces a booming noise, often confused with a lion roar.
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