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On 23 October 2016 the Huffington Post published an article with a headline proclaiming that the U.S. Supreme Court had upheld a 20-year prison term for former Vice President Dick Cheney: The article was just a bit of satire (clearly labeled as such), set in 2019 and based on a Donald Trump presidency. But as Huffington Post articles are not typically satire-based, many social media users presumed the headline was legitimate and straightforward. And while the dateline included reference to the Goodyear Satire Co., not all social media users note that level of detail when spotting shares in the wild. Huffington Post's foray into satirical territory with the Dick Cheney piece isn't the first time a mainstream news publication has confused readers with fake news items. The New Yorker's Andy Borowitz occasionally perplexes social media users unaware the non-satirical outlet maintained a satire column, and the New York Times confounded a number of readers with an item suggesting that the elite Stanford University admitted no students for the class of 2020.
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