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It's true, Lady Gaga's antics on and off the stage are often hard to believe. Sometimes, though, you really shouldn't believe them.

On Monday, The New York Post, citing unnamed sources, reported that Gaga had developed a "strong friendship"--and perhaps more (wink, wink)--with the Slovenian Marxist/Lacanian/Hegelian philosopher Slavoj Žižek, whom she'd spent time discussing "feminism and collective human creativity" with while touring the U.K. and U.S. this spring. As evidence, the Post cited a "recent blog post" (below) on the site of the ultra-leftist Deterritorial Support Grouppppp (our computer key didn't stick, they actually spell it that way). In the post, Žižek announces that Gaga will be joining him at a strike by university lecturers in London and praises the pop star's infamous meat dress, which evoked "the consistent linking in the oppressive imaginary of the patriarchy of the female body and meat." Several news outlets picked up the news.

Just a few problems with the story. First, the "recent blog post" was from March 21, which doesn't exactly qualify as recent. Also, Žižek told the Post that he never wrote the piece. "I am terribly sorry to disappoint you," he explained, "but this is all a fake! The only thing I share with her is the support for the strike." What's more, the link trail in the blog post led to a Facebook page announcing that Gaga and Žižek would appear together at the strike--something which, judging by the comments on the page, didn't happen. "P-p-picket line..well nice stunt.." one person wrote.