Huffington Post - A lot of us seem all too willing to take what we read on Facebook as fact, especially when presented with just a bit of photographic "proof" or with something that looks vaguely like a news headline. It's not all our fault. If the same hoax pops up on our Facebook News Feed enough times, we become inclined to believe it's actually true, according to Cabell Gathman of The Daily Dot. And social media certainly makes it easy to get fake news in front of a lot of eyeballs, whose attached humans aren't always willing to question a story's legitimacy before passing it on. What we really need to do is hone our lie detectors. So let's take a look at the year's totally fake stories, realize what we missed and try to do better at weeding out the hoaxes in 2015. Hoax #1: This status update keeps your Facebook photos safe! After Facebook changed its terms and conditions earlier this month, a bunch of people started copying and pasting the same status update on their profiles. The post, written in
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