Fact Check: Fictional Story Of $1B Loss From Customer Backlash Against 'Woke' Dunkin' Donuts Ads Is A Recycled Satire Story
Did Dunkin' Donuts' CEO announce in June 2025 that a woke ad campaign cost the company $1 billion, forcing it to backtrack? No, that's not true: The story is fiction and copies the idea, but not the words, of a September 2024 spoof produced by a Facebook page specializing in satirical news stories. No evidence-based news organization has published or…