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In mid-October 2017, readers began asking if Freddy Krueger (or "Freddy Kruger") from the Nightmare on Elm Street films was based on a real-life serial killer:

Seeing this start to go around. I can't find anything about it and I'm sure I'm not the only one looking.

The Freddy Kruger character was based on a real serial killer who lived in Cincinnati,OH in the 1800s. According to police files of the time, Mr. Kruger had killed at least twenty children within a three mile radius of where he lived. He reportedly murdered the children using only a gardening claw, and he lived inside an abandoned factory; having set up a small living area (and torture area) within the "mechanical room" of the facility. Oh...back then, a "mechanical room" was also known as a "boiler room".

Mr. Kruger was eventually caught, tried, and found to be criminally insane. He spent the rest of his life in Kings Park Psychiatric Hospital before dying unexpectedly in his sleep at the age of 72.

To this day (and LONG before the Elm St. films) Kings Park Psych Hospital was said to be haunted by the ghost of Freddy Kruger!

Iterations of the rumor placed the "real-life" Freddy Krueger murders (often misspelled "Kruger") as local to Cincinnati, Brooklyn, and other areas. But copied and pasted versions elided the last line of what appeared to be the original share:

Although the exact wording varied, the photographs of the "Frederick Kruger" gravestone (1838-1910) also had a brief note to the effect of: "Actually, I just found this picture and made all this shit up & you actually read it ???? ... Happy October everyone????".

However, in October 2014 horror film creator Wes Craven disclosed that "Freddy Krueger" was based on a scary news report he read - not about a real human murderer:

When asked where they actually got the idea for Freddy's WTF-tastic dream powers, Craven recounted an old new story he'd read about a family trying to get their lives in order after escaping Cambodia. But the family's son was haunted with post-traumatic stress that eventually killed him. From there, the genesis of Freddy Krueger was born:

"I'd read an article in the L.A. Times about a family who had escaped the Killing Fields in Cambodia and managed to get to the U.S. Things were fine, and then suddenly the young son was having very disturbing nightmares. He told his parents he was afraid that if he slept, the thing chasing him would get him, so he tried to stay awake for days at a time. When he finally fell asleep, his parents thought this crisis was over. Then they heard screams in the middle of the night. By the time they got to him, he was dead. He died in the middle of a nightmare. Here was a youngster having a vision of a horror that everyone older was denying. That became the central line of Nightmare on Elm Street."

Although Craven's commentary was real, the circulating "Frederick Kruger" gravestone is entirely unrelated to a "real" Freddy Kruger, and instead was intended as a Halloween joke. Over time, however, the description was copied and pasted without its last line, spoiling the joke and confusing horror film buffs.

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FACT CHECK: Was Freddy Krueger From 'Nightmare on Elm Street' Based on a Real Serial Murderer?

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In mid-October 2017, readers began asking if Freddy Krueger (or "Freddy Kruger") from the Nightmare on Elm Street films was based on a real-life serial killer: Seeing this start to go around. I can't find anything about it and I'm sure I'm not the only one looking.

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The strange story of Pan Am Flight 914 is frequently shared by UFO blogs and conspiracy-minded websites as if it has been stumping the experts for decades. This "unsolved" event reportedly involves a plane that took off from New York in 1955 with 57 passengers, disappeared for 37 years, then reappeared and landed in Miami as if nothing had happened.

Various solutions have been offered to explain the riddle of Pan Am Flight 914, the most popular of which is that this plane flew through some sort of time-travel portal. The actual explanation is a bit more mundane: The saga of Pan Am Flight 914 is a work of fiction that originated with Weekly World News, a notorious tabloid that operated between 1979 and 2007 (the tabloid would later relaunch as an online-only publication).

In June 2019, the YouTube page "Bright Side" renewed interest in this "mystery" with a viral video that has garnered more than 5 million views:

The first seven minutes of this nine-minute video deal with the mystery supposedly surrounding the saga of Pan Am Flight 914. It isn't until minute seven that Bright Side mentions the possibility that this story could be a work of fiction. Judging by the influx in queries we received about this topic at the end of June 2019, we're guessing many viewers didn't watch the entire film.

The story of Pan Am Flight 914 does not begin at a New York airport in 1955. It actually starts with an article published in Weekly World News three decades later:

Weekly World News was an infamous tabloid known for publishing fantastically fictitious stories, such as this bit about a time traveler getting busted for insider trading, this story about a man suing himself after hitting himself with a boomerang, and these doctored images of " giant" skeletons. In other words, Weekly World News isn't exactly a reputable source of news.

Weekly World News republished this story at least two more times, once in 1993 and again in 1999. Curiously, the publication used two different photographs of two different men as if they showed "eye-witness" air-traffic controller Juan de la Corte:

Similar to today's misinformation purveyors, Weekly World News had the habit of using unrelated photographs to illustrate their stories. The image of the plane in this article, for instance, does not show Pan Am Flight 914 landing in Miami after 37 years. This is actually a stock photograph available via Alamy, which lists the plane as a DC-4:

Lastly, we searched through newspaper archives for any contemporary articles relating to the disappearance of a plane. Unsurprisingly, we were unable to locate any credible news accounts about the disappearance of Pan Am Flight 914.

Fans of the science-fiction TV series "Twilight Zone" may have experienced some déjà vu while reading this story. While the fictional story of Pan Am Flight 914 originated with the tabloid Weekly World News, it is reminiscent of a 1961 episode of the sci-fi show entitled "The Odyssey Of Flight 33."

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Did a Plane Disappear and Land 37 Years Later?

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Armed with facts, we find that the mystery of Pan Am Flight 914 isn't much of a mystery.

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In October 2019, U.S. President Donald Trump's public appearances with his Italian counterpart, Sergio Mattarella, gave rise to a veritable explosion of viral claims that Trump had butchered his guest's name, referring to him as "President Mozzarella." Widely shared memes also claimed that Trump had said the United States and Italy had been allies since the era of ancient Rome.

The look of the White House Italian translator as Trump says President Mozzarella for the Italian President and says U.S. and Italy have been allies since Ancient Rome. Hot fucking damn pic.twitter.com/ecrIaRFvOI

- Danny Keetz, Drunk Assistant to the GM (@DKeetz) October 16, 2019

That #trumppresser was batshit crazy.
* Trump was slurring his words a lot
* He made the claim that we have been allies with Italy since Ancient Rome.
* He bashed NATO while praising Putin.
* He called the Italian President "President Mozzarella" on multiple occasions.

- ColoradoResister117 (@resister117) October 16, 2019

Trump called the Italian President "President Mozzarella" multiple times.

I don't know whether to laugh or cry at this point. #trumppresser

- Travis Allen 🇺🇸 (@TravisAllen02) October 16, 2019

Notably absent from the many social media posts that expressed a mixture of glee and horror at Trump's supposed "Mozzarella" gaffe was any video footage. The reason for that absence was that the president never actually referred to his Italian counterpart as "Mozzarella."

Analysis

Trump and Mattarella held three public events together on Oct. 16: They spoke to the press before their bilateral meeting at the Oval Office; held a press conference; and spoke at a reception in the evening. Video footage is available of all three events.

We watched those three events in full and found no instance in which Trump referred to Mattarella as "President Mozzarella." By contrast, Trump uttered the Italian president's last name correctly on four occasions:

Furthermore, Trump never actually claimed that the United States and Italy had been allies since the era of ancient Rome, something that would clearly be wrong because the U.S. was only founded as an independent nation in 1776, and Italy was only unified in the 19th century, becoming a republic in the 1940s.

What Trump actually said, in his opening remarks during the press conference, was as follows:

"The United States and Italy are bound together by a shared cultural and political heritage dating back thousands of years, to ancient Rome ..."

Trump said the two countries share a political and cultural heritage, and that that heritage dates back thousands of years. He did not claim that the two countries have shared an alliance for thousands of years - something that would have required both nations to exist as polities during the era of the Roman Empire, which clearly neither did.

The phrase "dating back thousands of years" evidently caused many commentators to misunderstand the meaning of Trump's remarks. But it's the heritage that goes back that far, not the binding of the two nations.

The influence of the Roman Republic on the formation and principles of the American Republic is well-documented, and Trump's point was historically sound.

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Did Donald Trump Call Italy's President 'Mozzarella'?

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In October 2019, U.S. President Donald Trump's public appearances with his Italian counterpart, Sergio Mattarella, gave rise to a veritable explosion of viral claims that Trump had butchered his guest's name, referring to him as "President Mozzarella." Widely shared memes also claimed that Trump had said the United States and Italy had been allies since the era of ancient Rome.

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Surely you've heard of the Bermuda Triangle. It's that supposed vortex of death located in the Atlantic Ocean around Miami, Puerto Rico and Bermuda where planes, tankers and thousands of people have mysteriously disappeared.

But there's a Bermuda Triangle counterpart located in the Pacific Ocean. It's called the Dragon's Triangle - or Devil's Sea - and it's situated in the Philippine Sea between Japan, the Philippines and Guam.

The Dragon's Triangle, however, has been featured heavily in folklore for centuries. And the guys at Stuff They Don't Want You To Know are diving into the stories that swirl around this marine mystery in the episode of the podcast titled What is the Dragon's Triangle?

Fables surrounding the dangers of the Dragon's Triangle date back to 1000 B.C.E. In China, people believed a mythical dragon lived beneath the surface of the ocean, pulling ships and sailors down into the depths of its watery lair.

Thirteenth-century conqueror Kublai Khan - grandson of Genghis Khan - is said to have tried to sail through the area several times, losing as many as 40,000 of his men to the Dragon's Triangle. More recently, the Kaiyo-Maru No. 5, a Japanese research vessel sent on a mission to study the area, vanished in the Triangle in 1953 with everyone on board. Author Charles Berlitz even linked the Devil's Triangle to Amelia Earhart's disappearance.

Both the Bermuda Triangle and the Dragon's Triangle are considered vile vortices, areas where the Earth's electromagnetic waves are purportedly stronger than anywhere else. The planet has 12 of these so-called vile vortices - and all 12 have mysterious disappearances associated with them. The locations of these 12 vortices were theorized in 1972 by cryptozoologist and paranormal enthusiast Ivan T. Sanderson to explain the mysterious disappearances and deaths that occur in these areas of the world.

But not everyone agrees that there are any mysterious disappearances to explain. Many argue that statistically, no more wrecks occur in the Dragon's Triangle (or Bermuda Triangle for that matter) than in any other area. In several cases, such as the Kaiyo-Maru No. 5, pieces of wreckage were eventually recovered, debunking the "vanishing ship" stories.

Still others wonder if the Dragon's Triangle location atop the Izu-Bonin volcanic arc - a system of tectonic-plate convergent boundary lines - could explain that ancient Chinese fable about underwater dragons. To hear what hosts Matt Frederick, Ben Bowlin and Noel Brown have to say about other attempts to refute the myths and legends concerning the Dragon's Triangle, you'll have to listen to the entire podcast.

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Has the Dragon's Triangle Been Swallowing Up Ships for Centuries?

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Surely you've heard of the Bermuda Triangle. It's that supposed vortex of death located in the Atlantic Ocean around Miami, Puerto Rico and Bermuda where planes, tankers and thousands of people have mysteriously disappeared. But there's a Bermuda Triangle counterpart located in the Pacific Ocean.

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Can you spot fake news? Watch this video from Common Sense Media to learn how to check out news to see if it's true or not. It's not always easy to tell!

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When you die, you can spend eternity sliding about the bottom of a kitchen drawn, stuck down a sofa and having your head shaved into a point. Artist Nadine Jarvis turns human remains into pencils.

She takes the carbon left on the floor in crematoria and as part of her "research project into post mortem" turns the dust into pencils. It turns out that "240 pencils can be made from an average body of ash - a lifetime supply of pencils for those left behind".

The pencils are not graded. Although it would be nice if the 'H' (for hardness) and 'B' (for blackness) could reflect the donor's personality, disposition and lifestyle.

Spotter: Cribcandy

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Ce n'est plus un secret pour personne: les médias pantins ne font plus leur boulot d'information. Ils divertissent, ils font peur, ils montent des faits divers en épingle, ils font des écrans de fumée, ils légitiment le pouvoir en place, ils manipulent l'opinion publique au delà du concevable. Mais ils n'informent plus.
Des médias alternatifs sont apparus pour prendre le relais. Certains sont sérieux, d'autres complètement loufoques. Certaines infos semblent plausibles mais s'avèrent totalement fausses. D'autres semblent incroyables, et pourtant elles sont vraies... Comment faire le tri entre l'info et l'intox? Bref:Comment vérifier les informations trouvées sur le net?
" Dans ces temps de tromperie universelle, dire la vérité devient un acte révolutionnaire " - George Orwell
Encore faut il apprendre à discerner le vrai du faux ;-)

Je vais commencer par reprendre les bases. Ca semblera peut- être fastidieux pour certains, mais ça me semble indispensable (Cf. de nombreux partages et commentaires effarants sur les réseaux sociaux !!)
J'aborderai ensuite quelques astuces plus "élaborées" pour faire de vous de fins limiers sur le net ;-)

C'est le BA-Ba. Beaucoup d'infos circulent alors qu'elles sont "périmées".
- "Quel projet scandaleux, on doit se battre".
- "Calme toi, Simone, c'était y'a 2 ans, et ce projet n'a pas survécu au delà du stade de l'idée".
Je caricature, mais à peine ;-)
Vérifiez toujours la date de l'info que vous lisez. Si besoin, faites une recherche pour trouver des infos plus récentes. Sorti de son contexte, cet écrit est peut être complètement dénaturé...

Encore du BA-Ba. Ca semble évident, mais vu le nombre de personnes qui publient des articles du Gorafi comme une "info vraie" (et de nombreux commentaires sur leur propre site!!), ce rappel me semblait nécessaire. Face à un article ou une vidéo, le premier réflexe est de vérifier qui est l'auteur et quel est le site qui publie l'info.

Reprenons l'exemple du Gorafi, un rapide coup d'oeil sur la page d'accueil nous amène sur des articles comme "Un candidat de Fort Boyard oublié dans une cellule retrouvé 7 ans plus tard" ou "Trop souriant dans le métro, il finit en garde à vue". Ca pose le décor...
Si on doute encore qu'il s'agit d'un site satirique, un coup d'oeil sur leur page vous le confirmera clairement.
Tous les sites ne sont pas aussi "francs". Mais de manière générale, regarder la page d'accueil d'un site vous donnera une première idée de son sérieux et de sa ligne éditoriale. Beaucoup d'intox ne dépassent pas le stade de ce premier examen...
Vous pouvez aussi faire une recherche sur le net à propos du site si vous ne le connaissez pas. Prenons par exemple cet article qui annonce une hécatombe de poissons au Mexique . En cherchant "7sur7.be" sur Wikipédia, on découvre que c'est un des principaux sites d'informations officiels belge... Un peu plus crédible que le Gorafi...
Une recherche sur l'auteur de l'article peut aussi s'avérer utile.
Si l'article cite ses sources, il est intéressant de s'y pencher aussi (d'ailleurs, si l'article ne cite aucune source, ça n'est pas un bon signe!! Un auteur sérieux cite toujours ses sources).

Repérez les mots clefs et faites votre propre recherche:

Notez les noms des personnes et des villes citées pour faire une recherche (même rapide). , vous devriez y trouver des sources (au moins des sources locales).
Un article affirme qu'un attentat a eu lieu et qu'aucun média français en parle? Tapez le nom de la ville dans "Google actualités" (ou autre moteur de recherche)
S'il n'y a aucun détail dans votre source, c'est mauvais signe. Un relais sérieux cite toujours un maximum de détails (lieu, date, protagonistes). Moins il y a de détails, plus on peut penser à une intox.

Consultez les médias du pays concerné:

Pour trouver les noms des médias principaux d'un pays, il suffit de taper sur un moteur de recherche le mot "média" accolé au pays choisi. Vous trouverez facilement la liste des principaux médias de ce pays, et donc les liens vers ces sites (dans leur langue nationale).
Vous pouvez obtenir une traduction de n'importe quelle page étrangère en Français, en utilisant des sites de traduction comme Google translate ou Microsoft Translator par exemple. Il suffit d'y noter l'adresse de la page à traduire et vous obtenez la traduction en 2 clics (traduction approximative, mais suffisante pour comprendre)

Dans toutes les "histoires" humaines, il y a toujours plusieurs versions. C'est une question d'observation et de point de vue (c'est déjà du lourd!!). C 'est également une question de mauvaise foi, mais aussi de personnes de bonne foi mais qui se trompent et/ou qui sont manipulés... Bref, c'est un vaste foutoir au final... Il faut vraiment s'armer pour s'y retrouver... Comment rechercher la thèse opposée à ce que vous venez de lire?
"debunker", "propagande" ou "mensonge" (par exemple) pour pouvoir apprécier les arguments opposés. Histoire d'apprécier par vous-même quelle thèse est la plus sérieuse et étayée (souvent, ça ne fait pas "photo", l'une des thèses semble vite
Prenez un mot clef. Faites une recherche en ajoutant le mot "hoax", bancale).

Dans le sens inverse, le mot "reopen" ajouté à un mot clef donne parfois des résultats très intéressants: les mots Reopen 9/11 (pour le 11 septembre), Reopen Outreau ou Reopen Dutroux (par exemple), vous reservent des voyages aux confins de l'horreur...

Les médias n'ont plus aucune objectivité, ils s'inscrivent dans la propagande. Dans le divertissement.Voyons si vous avez compris les bases, on passe à un cours de 2e année ;-)
"Du pain et des jeux". On commence à manquer de pain, il faut donc forcer sur les jeux... Bref, je m'égare ;-)
Comment prendre connaissance d'une info à la source, dans un pays étranger, dans une langue inconnue?
Face à une info, il faut toujours rechercher les différentes versions pour se faire sa propre opinion.
Je vous propose un petit exercice pour comprendre la méthode:
Comment connaître les "actualités" dans le conflit Ukrainien, version Russe?
Tout d'abord, direction Google translate qui nous apprend qu'en Russe, Ukraine se traduit par " Украина". Copions ce mot dans Google actualités . On arrive sur cette liste d'articles en Russe concernant l'Ukraine. Il suffit alors de traduire ces différents articles en Français (toujours avec un site en ligne comme Google Translate) sans oublier de vérifier la source (voir plus haut).

Pour les puristes, on peut faire encore mieux ;-) . On y découvre les noms des moteurs de recherche et des principaux médias russes. Ca permet d'éviter la censure de Google (qui classe les infos à sa sauce). Dans cet exemple, l'idéal est donc de se rendre sur un moteur de recherche russe pour faire la recherche avec des mots clefs en Russe ;-)
En tapant "médias russes" sur google, on tombe sur
J'ai pris cet exemple mais on pourrait faire la même chose pour l'Irak, la Syrie, la Lybie, etc... La méthodologie est la même.

A noter au passage:
Hoaxbuster n'est PAS une référence. C'est un site pour "vérifier" qu'une chaîne "débile" sur Internet est fausse ("cette petite fille va mourir si vous ne partagez pas ce lien"!!!).
Hoaxbuster, c'est "les hoax pour les nuls". Ca s'arrête là. Ce site est aussi devenu un site de propagande, qui déclare comme "hoax" tout ce qui peut déranger les 1%, sans la moindre forme d'enquète ou de procès. Il suffit de taper "11 Septembre" sur leur moteur de recherche pour se faire une idée de la mauvaise foi expéditive de ce site sur les sujets qu'il considère comme "complotistes".

Aaaah!!! Le complotisme, un gloubi boulga qui couvre le 11 septembre, mais aussi les OGM, le TAFTA, la géoingénierie, l'empoisonnement des masses, les réseaux pédophiles d'élite, les mensonges de l'histoire, les crimes de guerre impunis,...Une "catégorie" fourre tout qui permet d'étouffer tout débat dans l'oeuf. Une catégorie de plus en plus large qui cherche maintenant à englober les "écolos", les altermondialistes, les libres penseurs... Et bientôt tous ceux qui osent prétendre qu'il fut un temps, le ciel était bleu...

J'ai moi même été traitée de "complotiste biologique" par un journaleux de Rue89, suite à un inventaire d'hécatombes animales, pourtant précis et documenté .
Je lui ai pour l'occasion collé une fessée mémorable, par un droit de réponse, qui CURIEUSEMENT, malgrè mes "provocations", n'a été ni commenté, ni publié sur leur site... Ils se sont contentés d'ignorer cette humiliation (bien méritée vu leur bassesse). Thibaut, si tu me lis, je compatis un peu, je t'ai mis cher quand même :-D

Bref, je m'égare encore, désolée. Mais pas tant que ça. Cet aspect est aussi un indice non négligeable!! Un merdia qui traite une thèse de "complotiste" attire forcément mon attention sur ladite thèse. Je sais que ce genre de mot VIDE DE SENS ne sert qu'à cacher l'absence totale d'arguments pour contrer cette thèse.
"Complotiste", "conspirationniste", "communiste", "antisémite", "fasciste" etc... Ces basses insultes essayent de masquer l'absence totale d'arguments pour contrer concrètement les faits énoncés. C'est quasiment systématique... Ces mots ne doivent plus vous faire fuir, mais éveiller votre vigilance, susciter votre attention!!
Ca ne veut pas dire que je gobe tout, bien au contraire!! Mais ce genre d'accusation suscite systématiquement mon intérêt... Et amène recherche et vérification (ça va vite quand on a pris l'habitude!!).
Un média officiel qui crie "Complotiste" = Y'a surement anguille sous roche ;-)

La plupart du temps, des commentateurs éclairés prennent le temps de confirmer ou d'infirmer les infos publiées. Sur les sites ou la censure reste "raisonnable", les commentaires sont de vraies mines d'information. Ils ajoutent du grain à moudre, et souvent du bon grain!! Ils citent des noms, des références précises, ils renvoient vers des liens... Oubliez les sites de pure propagande comme LCI et BFM ou les commentaires sont triés sur le volet. Sur ce genre de site, les seuls commentaires qui "passent" sont conformes à la propagande de la pensée unique. On repère vite ce genre de site "extrémiste": tous les commentaires vont dans le même sens (des rangées de moutons bélants, avec quelques commentaires légèrement "déviants" pour faire bonne figure, histoire d'entretenir l'illusion de débat).

Avec un peu d'entrainement, vous repérez vite les sites "dictateurs" et ceux ou la libre expression existe encore (un peu). Il vous suffira alors de rechercher le sujet qui vous intéresse sur ces sites pour aller fouiller dans les commentaires, vous y trouverez surement des pépites ;-)

A chaque info-choc son image. Parfois, l'image est presque la seule info, accompagnée de quelques mots laconiques.
Il existe des moteurs de recherche d'images, qui permettent de retrouver leur source. Pour ma part, j'utilise . Il suffit de copier le lien vers l'image ou de la télécharger, et vous obtiendrez tous les liens qui contiennent cette image. Vous pouvez ensuite filtrer selon vos critères (date par exemple).
Cet outil est très efficace. Il permet de démasquer de nombreux mensonges, de part et d'autre. Quand une photo est présentée comme une image "exclusive", alors que c'est une "vieille" photo recyclée, on peut raisonnablement jeter l'article à la poubelle...

A l'inverse, ce type de recherche permet aussi de trouver des compléments d'informations. Quand l'info est vraie, ça permet de retrouver les différentes sources qui en parlent. Une vraie mine d'infos (cette recherche ne connait pas de frontière, vous trouverez des articles dans toutes les langues, que vous pourrez traduire grace aux sites cités plus haut).

Nous vivons une guerre d'un nouveau genre. Une guerre psychologique. Faite de propagandes et de désinformation (de tous cotés!!). Il est important de s'armer pour se protéger dans cette guerre.
Les 1% répètent "ne croyez pas tout ce qu'on dit sur Internet, y'a plein de conneries". Ca les arrangerait bien. Ils veulent nous voir désarmés dans cette guerre...

Ne faites pas ce qu'on vous dit. Ne jetez pas le bébé avec l'eau du bain!!
N'ignorez pas tout ce qui circule en ce moment sous pretexte que certaines choses sont fausses. Y'a énormément de vrai aussi, noyé dans le faux pour nous tromper!!!

Apprenez à discerner le vrai du faux, c'est capital!! Ouvrez les yeux sur ce qui se passe, vérifiez par vous même, ouvrez les yeux et aidez vos proches à en faire de même. C'est notre meilleure arme si on veut reprendre notre destin en main...

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KFC is a fast food chain that has been around for a long time now and is very much one of the 'big three' when it comes to your options for where to get a burger and fries. At the same time though, KFC manages to distinguish itself from the other two by focussing predominantly on chicken (KFC standing for 'Kentucky Fried Chicken' as everyone should know) and using a special recipe for coating chicken that a lot of people, myself included, find pretty irresistible.

This focus on chicken also makes KFC slightly healthier than Burger King or McDonalds too (though it's still smothered in greasy fat and doused with liberal doses of salt), which is why it's managed to avoid some of the 'Supersize Me' flack that the other two have been tarred by. Unfortunately for the house of chicken however, a new rumour has emerged that's tarnished their name instead: the claim that they have begun using mutated chickens. But is it just a vicious lie, or is there any truth to this sci-fi horror story?
The Claim
The claim goes that KFC had to change their name from Kentucky Fried Chicken to KFC because they had started using chickens that are so genetically modified as to be no longer classifiable as 'chicken'. The specifics of this rumour vary but generally the description involves featherless and beakless chickens, pumped with steroids to provide maximum meat through minimum work.

Here's an example of the viral text that has most recently been doing the rounds:
KFC has been part of our American traditions for many years. Many people, day in and day out, eat at KFC religiously. Do they really know what they are eating? During a recent study of KFC done at the University of New Hampshire, they found some very upsetting facts. First of all, has anybody noticed that just recently the company has changed their name? Kentucky Fried Chicken has become KFC. Does anybody know why? We thought the real reason was because of the 'FRIED' food issue. It's not. The reason why they call it KFC is because they can not use the word chicken anymore. Why? KFC does not use real chickens. They actually use genetically manipulated organisms. These so called 'chickens' are kept alive by tubes inserted into their bodies to pump blood and nutrients throughout their structure. They have no beaks, no feathers, and no feet. Their bone structure is dramatically shrunk to get more meat out of them. This is great for KFC because they do not have to pay so much for their production costs. There is no more plucking of the feathers or the removal of the beaks and feet. The government has told them to change all of their menus so they do not say chicken anywhere. If you look closely you will notice this. Listen to their commercials, I guarantee you will not see or hear the word chicken. I find this matter to be very disturbing. I hope people will start to realize this and let other people know.
Please forward this message to as many people as you can. Together we make KFC start using real chicken again.
The Reality
The rumour started as a joke around 1999, that later developed into viral e-mails and internet memes. 'Boycott KFC' images can now be found all around Facebook and other social media sites and it seems that a lot of people actually believe the rather ridiculous rumour (which the company's PR department understandably finds rather alarming).

Those with a bit more common sense however should be able to see through this hoax relatively easily. Grammar aside, a quick inspection will reveal that KFC's advertising repeatedly uses the word 'chicken' as do their menus. Furthermore, it's most likely that the government would tell them to do more than just remove the word 'chicken' from their name – chances are the entire operation would be shut down. In fact anyone who has had a chicken leg from KFC should be able to see fairly easily that the bones are normal size. The real reason that KFC changed their name was simply to move away slightly from 'chicken' to emphasise the range of other foods on the menu.

Oh and that student didn't really find a brain in his KFC either (though a spokesperson admitted it was possible that a chicken kidney could have gotten in... ). More than anything this example shows us how untrusting we are of large corporations and how readily we will believe any kind of conspiracy. That said, the recent horse meat scandal shows us that sometimes these things do happen and mutated chickens or not, KFC still isn't exactly healthy. Hey, it sure does taste good though – sometimes you've just got to say 'c'est la vie'!

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Do KFC Really Use Genetically Altered Chicken?

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KFC is a fast food chain that has been around for a long time now and is very much one of the 'big three' when it comes to your options for where to get a burger and fries.