On Dec. 2, SpaceXMania published an article positing that the conservative political commentator Candace Owens had begun appearing on ABC’s “The View” following the departure of long-time host Whoopi Goldberg.
The story was a follow-up to earlier articles also originating from the site that made various claims about Owens taking Goldberg’s place on the show. This particular article began:
The story was also posted onto SpaceXMania’s associated Facebook page, SpaceX Lovers, where it garnered over 28,000 likes and 10,000 comments.
While the comments section was divided as to whether Owens joining “The View” would be good for the show, almost all of them implied that users believed the story was true.
But it was not a factual recounting of real events. SpaceXMania describes its output as largely satirical in nature and tagged the story as such.
On its disclaimer page, the site explains that any content it tags as satire is fictitious and therefore should never be assumed to be true:
