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Instagram, which is owned by Meta, has been disabling accounts and taking down some of these pickup or prank videos for violating the platform’s rules against harassment and bullying.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026

When I began leaving messages for them, one survivor wondered if the phone call was a prank.

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026

Its soccer coach thought the whole thing was a prank.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026

But the prank continued and any attempts to free the duke of his plastic hat have always been quickly thwarted with the cone replaced within days.

From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026

“Do you know what your senior prank is going to be yet?” she asked, face lighting up with excitement.

From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia

Playing jokes and pranks, it needs to be amusing and not belittling, obviously.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

In fact, if we were on the eve of April Fools’ Day, not the Fourth of July, I’d guess that the few news stories about the order were pranks.

From Slate ● Jul. 1, 2026

Prime Video’s award-winning series returns with a new unwitting hero, who is hired as a temp at a hot sauce company — gentle, funny pranks ensue.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2026

The catty media site Gawker noted that corners of the internet like 4Chan could be expected to respond with heinous pranks, without realizing how vile the rhetoric of regular people was about to get.

From Salon ● Feb. 16, 2026

He had a gleeful smirk whenever I fell for one of his pranks.

From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson

Kido says they’ve never been on the receiving end of weird or gross trash—or even pranked.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 1, 2026

One of them was Rita Skimehorn, the woman from Mascoutah, Illinois, who thought she was being pranked when Pizza Hut HR told her to pack her bags for the USSR.

From Slate ● Nov. 13, 2025

Eliava, in contrast, was a mischievous charmer who pranked his friends, once dressing as a woman to flirt with d’Hérelle at a dinner party, and kept sketchy notes in the lab.

From Salon ● Nov. 20, 2024

The Emmy-nominated host was famously pranked by Spears in 2016 when she and a troupe of dancers woke him up in the middle of the night with an impromptu performance of her single “Make Me.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2023

But when someone asks you for a bullfighting ring in an American public school, you have to know you’re being pranked.

From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman

He and his best pal Chris Stark, who joined Radio 1 in 2012, were known for their real life, on-air bromance and for pranking each other.

From BBC ● Mar. 30, 2026

This further fouls up Didi’s holiday, though Cliff’s pranking of Conway may mark the moment when she falls in love.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025

“My friend sent me a video, and at first I thought she was pranking me,” the 20-year-old from Nashville told Slate—and not just because the concept of an “A.I. actress” is already baffling enough.

From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2025

The most consequential part of the history of disinformation in America, it soon became obvious, isn’t the episodic lying driven by pranking or profit.

From Salon ● Oct. 6, 2024

"You're pranking me," she says with eyes bright as headlights.

From "The Sky at Our Feet" by Nadia Hashimi