No, Lansing, Michigan Almost Certainly Did not Get Buried by a Volcano No Matter What the Weekly World News Reported

The United States has had a cultural disagreement on just what “news” is for over a decade. From cries of “Fake News” and disparagement of journalists it may make one yearn for a simpler time when one could count on the steadfast reporting of supermarket tabloid Weekly World News.

The WWN may not be found in your checkout line any longer but the publication is thriving online. And when they’re not covering the infamous Bat Boy, they are hard at work making sense of the world around us.

So when they published on Facebook recently that a giant volcano had struck Lansing, we took notice.

Weekly World News Lansing Volcano Report

If the photo is to be believed, Michigan’s capital city is now under a river of lava and perhaps elsewhere around the state we may need to expect an ash cloud of toxic gas…

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