Lying clickbait is fascinated with celebrity interracial couples

Clickbait purveyors love to tease celebrity relationships that don’t exist. Through deceptive headlines and photos, they imply relationships between people who aren’t couples.
I’ve noted previously how content promoters suggest that some celebrities are gay when they’re not. Examples include Tom Selleck and Erin Burnett.
I’ve also noticed that clickbait companies like to imply that some celebrities are in interracial relationships. Examples include Tom Selleck (again!), Pat Sajak, Denzel Washington, Will Smith with Charlize Theron, and Maria Menounos with Michael Strahan.
More recently, I’ve seen clickbait ads that imply that actor Kevin Costner and Fox News pundit Tucker Carlson are each in interracial relationships.
Outbrain ran an article titled “Kevin Costner celebrates 17th wedding anniversary” that used a photo of Costner with actress Octavia Spencer. The photo was taken at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival. The same photo was used with a clickbait article titled “They are still married today.” Well, not to each other at least.

An Outbrain article titled “At 51, this is Tucker Carlson’s better half” used a photo of Carlson with actress Vivica A. Fox. The photo was taken at a “Dancing with the Stars” after-party in November 2016. Snopes even did an article on this false clickbait.

Another clickbait article titled “Troy Aikman stuns fans with new marriage pic” used a photo of the retired NFL quarterback with retired NFL running back Jamal Anderson. The photo was taken at a reception for Super Bowl XL in February 2006 in Detroit.

Elsewhere in internet chum, a Taboola article titled “Shaq’s yacht is intimidating and expensive” used a photos of the Calibre 120M yacht concept from MUB Design. It can’t belong to basketball great Shaquille O’Neal because it doesn’t even exist.

And finally, an Outbrain article titled “Taylor Swift is unrecognizable without makeup” used a Photoshopped image of the singer. The original photo was taken at the SNL 40 event in February 2015. The altered image with the clickbait article gives Swift a much bigger bust.