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Fake News: What CELEBRITY is Saying About CITY, STATE Residents

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There's a network of fake local news websites that is pushing the same story about several different celebrities and towns. Did you know Adam Sandler, Robert Downey Jr, Patrick Dempsey, Ashton Kutchner, Jim Carrey, Johnny Depp, Samuel L. Jackson, Vin Diesel (and many others) all said something about the residents of Austell, Georgia or Kalamazoo, Michigan or Bristol, Pennsylvania or…
Oct 26, 2017

by: Maarten Schenk

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