In a place as strange and wonderful as the Internet, it can be tough even for web-native publications to get all the facts straight, but old media seems to have a special talent for fucking them completely sideways. Take, for example, the Associated Press and New York Daily News, who yesterday reported a brazen attack by bicycle terrorists in New York, using a tweet from a clearly identified parody account as their only source.

If you're not on Instagram, do you even really exist? That's the existential dilemma Miley Cyrus fans wrestled with this weekend after the pop star took an almost 90-hour break from posting dirty feet pics and dildo reviews. The uncharacteristic social media silence seemed to confirm a laughably fake survey scam reporting Cyrus' death, flooding the Internet with much emoji weeping and gnashing of teeth.

On Friday, Popular Science, the Daily Mail and others reported that the 40-inch "world's longest dinosaur poo" was going up for auction later this month, available to well-heeled scat lovers for an estimated $10,000. That works out to $250 per inch, which is really pretty reasonable, or at least would be if the fecal fossil were any of the things those outlets claimed.

As is the case with many tragedies, details are short and speculation is long in the aftermath yesterday's Malaysia Airlines crash, creating ideal conditions for the spread of viral bullshit. So which of the photos currently racing through social media are authentic and which are just opportunistic fakes? Read our rundown below.

Many a cloud were yelled at last weekend after bad and not good hoax news site National Report published an article claiming that a "well-organized Hispanic militia" of illegal immigrants had seized control of a small Texas town.

On Monday, Detroit's WXYZ reported a red-bellied pacu had been caught in nearby Lake St. Clair, renewing fears from last summer that the weirdly toothy piranha relative was coming for our junk. As described by Vocativ, KMGH Denver and others, the pacu is "known for consuming human testicles" earning it the nickname "the ball cutter." But America's testicle-havers will be happy to learn the chiefly vegetarian fish's reputation for ball consumption is unfounded, the result of a decade-long game of telephone.

This weekend, Netflix customers lost their collective shit after known flim-flam artists Empire News reported Orange Is the New Black had been canceled, supposedly for having too few male leads.

The World Cup may be over, but on the Internet the "World Cup bullshit" season is in full effect. So which of today's viral soccer stories are completely made-up? Read below to find out! (Hint: It's all of them)

Good news, Brooklynites! Despite reports by The Huffington Post, the New York Post and others* of a pregnant Mexican tarantula on the loose in Park Slope, there's no giant spider coming to bite and/or devour your face.

With over 80 people shot, the Fourth of July weekend was Chicago's bloodiest of the year, prompting some to suggest the National Guard be called in to patrol the troubled city. On Monday, "satire" site The News Nerd did them one better, publishing an article claiming military forces had already been deployed to the city now "considered a war zone."

"Wouldn't it be crazy if [TV show I watch] were real?" That's the thought that had Showtime subscribers losing their shit this week after an article came out about 17 dismembered bodies being found in the Ohio River near Henderson, Ky. According to the report, the victims were wrapped in individual plastic bags and some had "extensive criminal records," causing police to speculate the murders were possibly "inspired by the television series Dexter."

This week, pale people both home and abroad wigged out after Scotland's Daily Record published an article claiming "redheads could become extinct" due to climate change. Citing an unnamed scientist, the paper forwarded the idea that increased sun exposure could kill off the world's ginger population like so many freckle-faced vampires, possibly within a few hundred years. Unfortunately for redheads coveting their potential conservation status (and the dupes at the Huffington Post, Glamour and The Independent), this story is total bullshit.

Solidifying their status as the very worst "satire" site on the Internet, the fake and bad National Report decided to capitalize on a full-fledged humanitarian crisis on Saturday, publishing an article titled "CDC Investigates Mystery Illness Spreading Through Border Towns." As described in the story, the immigrant-carried outbreak has caused victims in Texas to regress to a "primitive brain state" becoming "very hostile and territorial, almost like feral dogs." By Monday, the vague parody of xenophobic hysteria had completely succeeded, but only at drumming up further xenophobic hysteria:

Radio stations across the country hit sweet, psycho ex-girlfriend paydirt last week when they dug up this article about "the most extreme case of stalking ever recorded in the history of the country." According to the story, one Linda Murphy was arrested in New Mexico after calling her ex-boyfriend 77,639 times in one week. "Can you imagine all the energy drinks she must have consumed to have all those sleepless nights?!" asked San Francisco's 99.7 NOW, failing to first ask if the totally bogus article was fake.

Like so many improperly-stored, bigoted fireworks, anti-Islamic outrage exploded this week on Twitter after troll news site National Report published an article claiming President Obama would spend the 4th of July meeting with Muslim leaders at a D.C-area mosque.

On Wednesday, numerous media outlets, including the Washington Post, the Daily Mail and, ahem, Gawker, reported that famously photogenic mean-mugger Jeremy Meeks had landed a $30,000 contract with L.A.'s Blaze Modelz. Their source? A one-minute video from last Thursday's episode of TMZ. Not too surprisingly, that story didn't hold up when investigated by Bullet writer and anti-bullshit crusader Luke O'Neil, who took the unprecedented step of asking someone if it was true.

Good news, Ser Jorahs of the world: Your beloved Khaleesi isn't going anywhere. Game of Thrones fans started freaking out late last week over rumors that Emilia Clarke would not be returning to the show next season, but HBO has issued a complete denial on the matter.

With seemingly dozens of new hoax news sites popping up every day, it can be hard to keep track of the current crop of garbage "satire" outlets. So it's understandable if you've never heard of Wyoming Institute of Technology, who published a story last week claiming linguists at Bob Jones University had decoded DNA sequences into bible verses.

If you read the news this weekend, it was easy to believe that sperm-ageddon had arrived in Britain. According to a BBC report published Friday, the UK is facing a "major sperm shortage" after donors lost their right to anonymity in 2005. Media outlets on both sides of the Atlantic soon picked the story up, including Time, the Daily Mirror, The Independent and johnny-come-latelies Gawker and Jezebel.

Last week, garbage "satire" site National Report published an article claiming August to be "International Muslim Awareness Month" by presidential proclamation. Of course, no such declaration exists and the story was easily debunked, but patriots from across the Islamophobosphere donned their tricorn hats to denounce Obama anyway, even after being told the report was false.