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The Year in Hoaxes: Pizzagate, Plus-Sized Undies and a Lying Santa

JK

The craziest hoaxes of 2016—from fake news and fake deaths to fake hate crimes. (Seriously, nation. WTF.)

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If we learned anything in 2016, it was that the stuff in which we once rested our faith—polls, childhood heroes, the news, even our own eyes—could no longer be trusted.

Fake news itself was dubbed the lie of the year by fact-checking website Politifact.

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