35 News Stories That Seem Wholesome At First, But Readers Quickly Realized They Weren’t

It’s almost impossible to watch the news and not get pretty bummed out these days.

The news will occasionally slip in a nice wholesome story, but that’s not enough to make you forget the entire onslaught of stories you had to endure just to get to it. Some stories make the news because they’re so “heartwarming“, but are they really?

These news stories seem wholesome at first, but readers quickly noticed how misleading they were.


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