"I sometimes wonder, do we just not allow ourselves to be angry anymore because it's too much," said artist Tayo Ogunbiyi, who was angrily accused of perpetuating "a hoax" when she launched an exhibition celebrating both the Chibok girls' lives and the horror they were enduring.
Primark has promised to investigate, and may hope the labels will turn out to be a hoax.
However, it has also been reported the shirt for sale is a hoax.
Bob Carter is associated with at least ten different groups around the world that all reckon human-caused climate change is either some kind of hoax or a beat-up.
The votes saw virtually the entire Senate – except for a lone hold-out, Mississippi Republican Roger Wicker – vote that climate change was real and not a hoax.
Jezebel called out its futility, long before it was outed as a hoax: Last summer's viral ALS Ice Bucket challenge has given way to this year's contender for 'worst way to make anyone aware of anything while showing off your body', the aptly named 'Hold a Coke With Your Boobs Challenge'.
No confirmation or denial of a hoax was forthcoming, but the station had stopped broadcasting the theft in its news bulletin.
The Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev's well-known love for technology led to embarrassment on Thursday as hackers reportedly accessed his Twitter account and unleashed a barrage of hoax tweets.
Some Twitter users were sceptical of the content in the letter, suggesting a potential hoax, but a Labour source has confirmed to the Observer that the letter "did come from us".
Rather appropriately, it turns out that there is an anagram of Nessisteras rhombopteryx, pointed out in the Daily Telegraph a few days later: "Monster hoax by Sir Peter S".
On Monday a member of staff at the tourist centre had denied the disappearance was a hoax, telling Guardian Australia she "wished it was".
