Fool’s Errand: Looking at April Fools Hoaxes as Disinformation Through the Lens of Deception and Humour

Every year on April 1st, people play practical jokes one another and news websites fabricate false stories with the goal of making fools their audience. In an age disinformation, Facebook under fire for allowing “Fake News” to spread platform, every day can feel like Fools’ day. We create a dataset hoax articles build set features based past research examining deception, humour, satire. Analysis our suggests that looking at structural complexity levels detail in text are most important types feature characterising Fools’. propose these also very useful understanding Fake News, disinformation more widely.