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On 8 February 2017, the Huffington Post published an article suggesting that newly-confirmed Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos had ordered the immediate flattening of classroom globes, presumably due to her belief that the Earth is flat: Immediately preceding the content of the article was a disclaimer stating that You can read more satirical news items like this every day on The Political Garbage Chute. Since Huffington Post articles do not typically incorporate satire, many readers accepted the headline at face value. A number of those viewers might have seen the headline on social media, noted that it was attributed to Huffington Post, and assumed it represented real news without clicking through to read the underlying article. Huffington Post's forays into satire previously confused readers with an October 2016 article that suggested Dick Cheney would be jailed for 20 years on war crimes charges. The Huffington Post's confusion is not without precedent. New Yorker humorist Andy Borowitz has a satire column within a non-satirical outlet, and the New York Times' publication of a piece suggesting that Stanford University had admitted no students for the class of 2020 was a similar unexpected joke mistaken for real news by a number of readers.
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