Terrible Web Sites Create The First "Hoaxception"

Hoaxception

The Inquisitr and Disclose.tv create a hoax within a hoax within a hoax.

As we predicted on March 29, the celestial event of a comet or asteroid slamming into Jupiter has led to some hoaxing activity piggybacked on the real event, as hoaxers like to do. What we couldn't have predicted was how it happened. On March 30th online turd factory The Inquisitr ran with another one of their absurdly verbose headlines:


SOMETHING JUST CRASHED INTO JUPITER: IT'S AN ALIEN UFO MOTHERSHIP, UFO HUNTERS SAY - NO, IT'S LIKE AN ASTEROID, SAYS NASA


While quoting astronomers, "writer" John Thomas Didymus seems to have buried the lead within the text by simply providing a hyperlink within the phrase "UFO enthusiasts believe it was caused by an alien UFO mothership." That hyperlink points to a page on paranormal content theft site Disclose.tv. Jumping to the Disclose.tv page, we see the links to the same two videos featured on The Inquisitr, with the headline "MOTHERSHIP SLAMS INTO JUPITER." However, within the story there are no quotes, references or evidence presented (fabricated or otherwise) to support the headline. This is possibly a first in the long history of hoaxing: a hoax headline points to another hoax headline, which itself is a hoax in the sense that no hoax exists. Like the movie Inception where the characters collectively experience a dream within a dream within a dream, The Inquisitr and Disclose.tv have created a hoax within a hoax within a hoax. A remarkable achievement. Remarkable, and sad.

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