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Same owner as News Updates South Africa. Published a false story about election fraud during the 2016 municipal elections in South Africa, which led to the Electoral Commission of South Africa filing a criminal complaint against the site owner. [55] [56] AJUAnews AJUAnews.com Plagiarized content from The Last Line of Defense.
Be skeptical of headlines: False news stories often feature eye-catching, all-caps headlines with exclamation points. If the shocking claims sound too outrageous to be true, they probably are ...
Lead Stories: fact checks posts that Facebook flags but also use its own technology, called "Trendolizer", to detect trending hoaxes from hundreds of known fake news sites, satirical websites and prank generators. [220] [221] Media Bias/Fact Check. An American websites with focus on "political bias" and "factual reporting". [222] [223].
In early November 2016, fake news sites and Internet forums falsely implicated the restaurant Comet Ping Pong and Democratic Party figures as part of a fictitious child trafficking ring, which was dubbed "Pizzagate". [55] The conspiracy theory was debunked by the fact-checking website Snopes.com, The New York Times, and Fox News.
Credit: The Other 98%. In the quote, Trump calls voters the "dumbest group of voters in the country." He continued, saying that they'd believe anything Fox broadcasts.
The vagueness of this law means that satirists, opinion writers, and journalists who make errors could face persecution. The law also makes it illegal to share fake news stories. In one instance, a Danish man and Malaysian citizen were arrested for posting false news stories online and were sentenced to serve a month in jail. [386]
Contrary to Trump’s false claim, Congress approves FEMA’s budget. The agency has been on the ground in the areas impacted by the storm since it made landfall last week and is not close to ...
Published a false story with an out-of-context image and a fabricated attribution to Human Rights Watch. Copied a story from World News Daily Report. [1] [243] [244] [245] The Reporterz: thereporterz.com Starting in early 2016, this fake news website penned several different hoaxes, including one about a murder over a Twitter trend. [83 ...