Was a DJ at an Ibiza nightclub beaten up after playing the Luis Fonsi hit "Despacito" for the tenth time? No, satisfying as it would be, the story is not true. It originated on a satire website, the news was fake. The story originated with an article published on April 10, 2018 by There Is News titled "Nightclub DJ beaten…
Is California governor Jerry Brown preparing to ban sales of the bible? No, that's not true. The claim was made by a website that habitually takes some real news and then adds a few paragraphs and an inflammatory headline to make it sound much, much worse than what is really going on in order to get people to click and…
Is there a video named "Frazzledrip" circulating on the dark web that shows Hillary Clinton and Huma Abedin raping and slicing the face off a young girl and then drinking her blood? No, that's complete nonsense, no such video exists and the screenshots conspiracy websites are circulating as proof are not real. We became aware of the rumors via an…
Did a top UN inspector named Ã…ke Sellström say President Bashar Al-Assad was not responsible for the recent chemical attack on the town of Douma? No, that was a serious misrepresentation by a site known to be creative with the truth very often in the past. YourNewsWire posted an article on April 10, 2018 titled "Top UN Inspector: Assad Not…
Was a 24-year old man in Zamora, Spain arrested because he thought a police alcohol checkpoint was a Star Wars movie set? No, that's not true, the guy did not mistake the flashlights and police lights for lightsabers and laser beams. The fake story was made up by a Spanish satire website. It was published in an article on April…
Did Queen Elisabeth II of Britain record a speech about an imminent global war being planned by certain forces? Almost certainly not because the only source for this "news" is a website with an extremely unreliable reputation that claims it got the info from an unnamed "BBC production staff" member. The story appeared on YourNewsWire where an article was published…
Did Pope Francis cancel the Bible and did he propose replacing it with a new book possibly named "Biblia 2000"? No, that did not happen. Rumors about this are false, they originated on a satirical website so they are not true. The story went viral via an article published on April 8, 2018 by There Is News titled "Pope Francis…
Did Dr. Timothy Cunningham, a CDC doctor whose body was found in the Chattahoochee River in Atlanta last tuesday, "expose" that this year's flu shot actually caused a flu epidemic? No, he did not, that is fake news made up by a website with a very dubious reputation. YourNewsWire posted an article on April 5, 2018 titled "Body Of CDC…
Reports indicate intrepid reporter and truth-teller Baxter Dimitri from the always reliable legitimate news website YourNewsWire was kidnapped today by Russian Deep State Aliens on direct orders from the Vatican. According to these reports Pope Francis has ordered a secret cabal of big pharma supporting doctors to make sure Dimitri is injected with a mind control vaccine to stop him…
Did Russia and China just roll out a new currency that is 100% backed by gold? You would expect they did if you saw a news article titled "Russia And China Roll Out 100% Gold-Backed Currency" but you would be wrong. In fact an article was published by YourNewsWire with just that title on March 25, 2018 (archived here) which…
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