Were you fooled by a hoax in 2014? Many of us seem to be very willing to believe what we read on Facebook, especially when the posts have a photo or video as proof. Hoaxes often look like news and tempt us to share them with our friends. 
With social media, it is certainly very easy to circulate and spread false news, and it seems that there are many who do not question what they read and continue to spread it.
Identifying fake news can be tricky, as hoaxers use real stories to build a fake one. But let's take a look at the fake stories of the year to learn and try to better sort out what we share with our friends in 2015.
The number one hoax that made waves last year was a post that first appeared in September and tried to protect us from Facebook's terms and conditions. The hoax started with English-speaking accounts and was later translated into Greek. It was based on the real event of a Facebook policy change, and was supposed to protect anyone who copied and pasted it to their wall.
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It all started when Facebook changed its terms and conditions in 2014. Of course, no matter how many times you copied and pasted the message, you already agreed to Facebook's terms. It should be noted that the same post reappeared in November, stating exactly the same things.
The hoax about charging your iPhone in a microwave!
A fake Apple ad began circulating online this fall claiming there was a new way to charge your iPhone: with a microwave. Supposedly, the new operating system had the ability to “allow you to charge with the microwave frequencies used by an oven.”
We certainly don't want to believe that there were people who fried their phones, and we believe that the spread of this prank was only because the event was funny.
The hoax that wants Facebook to charge its users!
This hoax is almost as old as Facebook itself. But it continues to circulate and spread, using as a reference a fake “news agency” that reports that the social network will start charging its users $2.99 per month to avoid an “irreparable financial burden.” The hoax has been shared more than 2.3 million times on Facebook since it was published in September. It is known, of course, that Facebook has stated that it will never charge for its services, since it makes money from selling ads.
There are no angels, I tell you. The hoax about the angel saving a motorcyclist
It was released on Facebook in August. A video shows an angel teleporting a man (along with his motorbike) out of the path of a truck. The video, of course, does not show any teleportation.
In fact, the video was created with the help of editing, and is part of an advertising campaign for a Chinese computer game called Dragon Totem Girl (Zhu Xian 2). The advertising campaign for the game shows the main character having various superpowers (such as teleportation) and helping people in their daily lives.
The hoax with the good-looking convict who became a model
Posted on Facebook, “hot convict” Jeremy Meeks allegedly signed a $30,000 contract with modeling agency Blaze Modelz. It was later determined that the posts were fake, but it was too late to stop the rumors.
