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As the Glastonbury music and performing arts festival got underway in June 2017, a purported screenshot of a news article about Radiohead fans wildly applauding a tuning session they mistook for a real song appeared on social media: The image mimics the format of a BBC news article, but the headline is nowhere to be found on the BBC's Radiohead artist page -- or anywhere else on the BBC web site. We found no record of this story in any other genuine news publication. The BBC's actual article about the band's performance at Glastonbury did not mention any awkward applause: The earliest iteration of the viral fake news article that we could find came from a pretty unusual source -- a London flower shop's Twitter account: Although flower shops aren't known for throwing shade at Radiohead fans, Arena Flowers's Twitter account is full of similar jokes. For instance, they posted another fake news item about the Glastonbury Festival which claimed that Ed Sheeran played simultaneously on every stage: The news article about Radiohead fans mistaking a tuning session for a genuine song at Glastonbury is fake. However, this article is reminiscent of another embarrassing musical moment when Ravi Shankar fans actually did applaud a tuning session:
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