The Onion News is really wrong

Despite its reputation, there are still readers who cannot understand jokes and regard "Onion" stories as real news. As a result, "Onion" offices often receive complaint calls and emails. There is a large bulletin board in the main newsroom of the newspaper where letters from readers, copies of emails, and complaints and protests are posted. This included a letter from the publisher of "Our Century of Ignorance" who reported that many readers had complained that The Onion's promise to give away a free globe with the book turned out to be a lie. There was also a warning letter sent from the White House, protesting the "Onion" website's unauthorized use of the presidential seal. The Onion invoked the First Amendment and continued to use the presidential seal, but the White House did not follow through on its warning. A story that "the Pope added three more human glands to the condemnation list" caused a protest in the Vatican. In 2002, the Beijing Evening News reported a piece of fake news from The Onion as real news, saying that the U.S. Congress threatened to leave Washington and move elsewhere unless the government complied with their demands and converted the vaults of the Capitol into recyclable ones. Another time, a story about billionaire Mark Cuban buying an American sports club prompted a panicked phone call from a sports fan. Even more ridiculously, The Onion once reported that “a mall shooting victim refused to die in an overly feminine candle store and used sheer fortitude to crawl into an adjacent Champions Sporting Goods store before passing out from blood loss. store." The Champions Sports chain went so far as to call the editorial office and offer to reward the shooting victim mentioned in the story, who was recovering in the hospital. In June, a worker called to repair an office air conditioner saw an old Onion newspaper framed on the wall saying, "The Earth's rotation has plunged North America into darkness." The gullible worker scratched his head and asked, "Ah, when did it happen? Why don't I have any impression?"

Recently (November 27, 2012) People's Daily, a subsidiary of People's Daily Another big joke was made. The Onion News parodied People magazine's selection of "Sexiest Man Alive for 2012" and reported Kim Jong-un's selection, and even translated the original text into Chinese. It was paired with 55 photos of Kim Jong-un to create a special feature. Subsequently, the People's Daily scandal was reported by many foreign media and became a laughing stock around the world. The Onion News also responded on its original article, saying that "People's Daily is its proud subsidiary."

In August 2013, the official media reported fake news as true for several consecutive days: Xinhuanet, People’s Daily, NetEase, Phoenix and others reprinted a compiled article by International Online, saying that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos accidentally I clicked the wrong mouse button and put the "Washington Post" into the shopping cart. Only after receiving a notification from American Express I learned that I had spent $250 million to acquire the "Washington Post." International Online’s source is The New Yorker’s The Borowitz Report. International Online has taken down the report, and Xinhuanet has also deleted the post again - it had just reported a screenshot of a pornographic film as a major American scandal in a graphic report the day before yesterday.