By Staff Writer

Did you hear the news about the Dalai Lama writing his own sitcom? How about the rogue planet Nibiru being on a collision course with Earth? Or the woman arrested for defecating on her boss’s desk after winning the lottery?

These stories have all been published on apparently legitimate news sites and spread by our favourite social networks over the last year. And they share one other thing in common too: they were all, of course, absolutely fictional.

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Source: The Drum