Fox News mistakenly reported as truth a claim by satirical news outlet The Onion about it having trillions of daily readers, falling for a tongue-in-cheek line on the site.
The Onion has long been a parody of real news outlets, consistently publishing outlandish claims. One of them, which can be found on the website's About section, says The Onion has 4.3 trillion readers a day, something that was taken literally by Fox News.
