No, The Disney World Holiday Box Is Not Real
Snopes, one of the Internet’s main fact-checking sites, has spoken.
No, Everyone Is Not Winning This ‘Disney World Holiday Box’
A dubious Facebook post triggered a flood of reader inquiries.
Snopes.com describes their reporting like this:
When misinformation obscures the truth and readers don’t know what to trust, Snopes.com’s fact-checking and original, investigative reporting lights the way to evidence-based and contextualized analysis. We always document our sources so readers are empowered to do independent research and make up their own minds.
And they called it a hoax, debunking the claims of the below Facebook post:
Image: Snopes
Here are some of the (pretty common sense) reasons for calling foul on this “Holiday Box.”
- This is an unverified Facebook page (on verified Facebook pages for well-known brands or public figures, you should see a little blue checkmark next to their name). The page was created on Jan. 3, 2020, and has no other posts except the one listed above…
- The verified Walt Disney World Facebook page is not making the same offer…
- Disney World opened in 1971. So unless the giveaway is for tickets for a few decades in the future, it’s unclear why this offer is celebrating the park’s “78th birthday.”
Anyway, I am pleased to post this for my fellow Disney fans.
And be sure to check out the entire Snopes article and check back whenever anything seems dubious.
