the mountain dew brand soft drink is being discontinued by pepsico.
the mountain dew brand soft drink is being discontinued by pepsico.
is pepsico discontinuing mountain dew?
in august 2015, a news-like link reporting that the popular soft drink mountain dew (owned by pepsico) was going to be “cancelled” started circulating around social media. although the link appeared to point to a real news story, it was generated by the trolling web site feednewz:





































































the content on feednewz.com was user-created. anyone with an internet connection could use the web site, as well as prank.link and fakeshare.com, to create fake news headlines:





































































when social media users click on links created by one of the above-mentioned web sites, they were redirected to a “you got owned” page. feednewz.com then encouraged anyone who was fooled by the prank to share it again with their own social media circles, ensuring that the pranks went viral:





































































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reports that pepsico will be discontinuing production and sale of their mountain dew brand soft drink originated with a prank news site.
in august 2015, a news-like link reporting that the popular soft drink mountain dew (owned by pepsico) was going to be “cancelled” started circulating around social media. although the link appeared to point to a real news story, it was generated by the trolling web site feednewz:  the content on feed newz.com was user-created. anyone with an internet connection could use the site, as well as prank.link and fakeshare. com, to create fake news headlines.