Don’t believe everything you see on social media.

This isn’t a new nugget of advice. We hear it all the time.

Yet, when a Facebook post stated that Spot of Tea, a Mobile restaurant, would be leasing the Dragonfly Foodbar location in downtown Fairhope after the iconic central business district eatery and bar said they were moving, the post was shared 201 times and had over 100 comments in less than 24 hours. Some of the commenters took the information as fact while others enjoyed the joke with the knowledge it came from a satire account.

The Fairhope Inquisitor is a satire/parody website. The posts are intended to be funny, like The Onion, but not everyone checks posts they see on social media for whether they are factual, satire or deliberate misinformation. The brilliance of the Facebook page is the use of current events and inside jokes to create stories that could appear true without further context or delving.

Gulf Coast Media contacted Spot of Tea owner Tony Moore to confirm the information is not true.

“No. I’m not relocating the Spot of Tea to Fairhope,” Moore stated in an email. “I don’t know where that nugget of info came from, but it wasn’t me.”

Moore went on to say he loves Fairhope and has thought of retiring there.

Fans of the Spot of Tea should also know it has reopened as of Friday, Feb. 2, and according to Moore will continue doing business in downtown Mobile for as long as the residents support the business.