Times The Discovery Channel Lied To You

The Discovery Channel might seem like a beacon of hope and truth-telling for people sick of all the reality TV and lies out there today… until you actually look at Discovery’s programming. The Discovery Channel has lied right to your face more times than they’d probably like us to admit for them.

The Megalodon, a hulking shark beast that could grow 60 feet long and had the bite of a Tyrannosaurus rex, is the monster that will never die. Except it did die, millions of years ago, and the Discovery Channel keeps trying to bring this extinct creature back to life.

In 2013, Discovery kicked off their mega-popular Shark Week event with a special titled Megalodon: The Monster Shark Lives, a mockumentary pretending that the giant toothy zombie-fish was eating people off the coast of South Africa. Though the program did contain a shady warning about “dramatized events,” CNN reported that huge ratings were followed by a furious public outcry, with many arguing that the fake documentary had damaged the credibility of Shark Week as a whole.

Despite a severe lack of extraordinary evidence, or any evidence at all, Discovery continued this less-than-factual tradition the next year with an equally phony sequel, until finally cutting it out in 2016. Presumably, the scraps were fed to the sharks.

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