Researchers can use data from online April Fool's pranks to better understand how people detect hoaxes and fake news.

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Last updated in the early '90s, the term "healthy" will be redefined by the FDA to match evolving dietary recommendations.

Facebook's "Why am I seeing this post?" feature will reveal a tiny part of the News Feed's top-secret formula.

One hundred years of literary frauds.

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The name on the book jacket, Danny Santiago, lent it authenticity, even though there was no accompanying author photo. The author was actually Daniel Lewis James, the son of a wealthy Kansas businessman who attended Andover and Yale.

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Arkansas, the largest rice-producing state in the US, bans the marketing of "cauliflower rice" as "rice."

Leading Democrats use Google Translate for their error-ridden Spanish-language outreach pages. (Trump doesn't have one at all.)