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Back in 2012 the China's People's Daily Online "mistook" the Onion story naming Kim Jong Un 'The Sexist Man Alive' as a serious new story.

I believe that the editor responsible knew exactly what the story was, and knew that this could, just barely, be passed off as a mistake.

I believe that most people are inherently good. Sometimes they see that society is best served by an occasional mistake.