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In 2016 (a great year for cinema, by the way), News Thump, a UK-based satire website, stirred the pot by publishing an article titled “Netflix to Remove All Christian Content After Complaints From Muslims.” It includes fake quotes from fake people, such as “We demand you remove this terrible material from your website immediately. It’s bad enough we have to pay for bulls*** we can download for free anyway, without Dawn French’s infidel face being thrust into our televisions.” If that weren’t enough to clock the article’s legitimacy, the author of the piece intentionally noted that this fake quote was delivered to Netflix’s CEO on halal goatskin.
As is the want of satirical media, the post uses intentionally inflammatory language to express a point. And while there’s no explicit “satire” tag on the article itself, News Thump’s About Page expressly states that it is a “satirical and spoof news website, taking a daily swipe at current affairs from the UK and around the world.”
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USA Today points to News Thump’s article as the original source for this rumor, positing that certain individuals took its farcical content at face value and spread it like wildfire on Facebook. Once again, the moral here is that you should always verify your sources before sharing news of any kind. Especially if that news was found on Facebook, a social application that is notorious for permitting disinformation to spread without appropriate flagging.
