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  • Fake News: Obama Did NOT Say "I Fully Support Seizure Of White Farmers' Land In South Africa"

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    Did former President Barack Obama say he supports the seizure of white farmer's land in South Africa? No, that's a fake quote, made up by a website that plagiarises articles from other websites about real news events and then adds some invented claims in the headline and first paragraphs to attract more clicks and make more advertising money. The quotes…

    • Aug 4, 2018
    • by: Maarten Schenk
    Fake News: Obama Did NOT Say "I Fully Support Seizure Of White Farmers' Land In South Africa"
  • Fake News: Whistleblower Who Exposed Clinton's Ties To NXIVM LIKELY NOT Missing, Feared Dead

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    The alleged connection between NXIVM and Hillary Clinton has been a popular conspiracy theory for weeks since a Seattle man claimed he saw Clinton aide Huma Abedine and her ex-husband and former congressman Anthony Weiner at a sex cult "mixer" in 2007. Ben Szemkus also said he met Stormy Daniels, the porn star who says she had sex with Donald…

    • Jul 28, 2018
    • by: Alan Duke
    Fake News: Whistleblower Who Exposed Clinton's Ties To NXIVM LIKELY NOT Missing, Feared Dead
  • Fake News: Peter Strzok's Wife, Who Is SEC Director, Could NOT Have Blocked All FBI Investigations Into Clintons

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    Did Melissa Hodgman, wife of FBI agent Peter Strzok, block all FBI investigations of Clinton-related cases? No, that's not true and the article claiming she did directly contradicts itself. The headline making the claim was made up by a site that liberally copy-pastes content from other sites and then adds some made up facts to its own headlines and introductory…

    • Jul 23, 2018
    • by: Maarten Schenk
    Fake News: Peter Strzok's Wife, Who Is SEC Director, Could NOT Have Blocked All FBI Investigations Into Clintons
  • Fake News: UK Government Did NOT Sell 10,000 Children To Child Traffickers

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    Did the U.K. government "accidentally" sell 10,000 children to child traffickers? No, that's not true: the claim was made by a site that takes real news articles and then adds some invented facts to the headline and first paragraphs of its own version of the story, often involving pedophiles or conspiracies. The people behind the site presumably do this to…

    • Jul 10, 2018
    • by: Maarten Schenk
    Fake News: UK Government Did NOT Sell 10,000 Children To Child Traffickers
  • Fake News: Merkel Did NOT Ban Media Reporting Migrant Beheaded 1-Year-Old Girl In Germany

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    Did Angela Merkel or the German government ban German media from reporting on a migrant who also killed his 1-year-old daughter when he murdered his ex-wife in a stabbing attack? No, that's not true: the story and the killer's motives were widely reported in Germany right after the attack happened in April 2018. The claim that the German goverment tried…

    • Jul 7, 2018
    • by: Maarten Schenk
    Fake News: Merkel Did NOT Ban Media Reporting Migrant Beheaded 1-Year-Old Girl In Germany
  • Fake News: Australia NOT To Bankrupt Parents Who Don't Vaccinate

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    Will Australian parents who don't vaccinate their children get bankrupted by the state? No, that's not really true: the claim was made by a website that habitually takes bits of real news and then adds an incendiary headline of its own in order to get people to click through to their website so they can earn money via advertising. The…

    • Jul 5, 2018
    • by: Maarten Schenk
    Fake News: Australia NOT To Bankrupt Parents Who Don't Vaccinate
  • Fake News: Judge Jeanine Pirro NOT Confirmed By Trump To Be Next Supreme Court Justice

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    Will Judge Jeanine Pirro be the next justice on the Supreme Court and has President Donald Trump confirmed this? No, that's not true. The news was made up by a site that likes to take tidbits of real news and events and then adds a headline to their own version of the story to make it more clickbait-worthy in order…

    • Jun 29, 2018
    • by: Maarten Schenk
    Fake News: Judge Jeanine Pirro NOT Confirmed By Trump To Be Next Supreme Court Justice
  • Fake News: NO Former Clinton Aide Indicted For Child Sex Trafficking

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    Was Clare Bronfman, the heiress to the Seagram fortune who was indicted in the case surrounding the NXIVM sex cult, a former Clinton aide? No, that's not true: she was just one of many donors to Hillary Clinton's campaign but she played no direct role in it. She was certainly not one of "her closest aides". That story was made…

    • Jun 27, 2018
    • by: Maarten Schenk
    Fake News: NO Former Clinton Aide Indicted For Child Sex Trafficking
  • Fake News: Pope Francis Did NOT Say US Must Open Borders To 'As Many Migrants As Possible'

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    Did Pope Francis call for the United States to have open borders and to take in "as many migrants as possible"? No, that's not true, he didn't say that. A twisted quote appeared in the headline of an article on a website that habitually takes bits and pieces of real news and then adds fake facts in their own headlines…

    • Jun 26, 2018
    • by: Maarten Schenk
    Fake News: Pope Francis Did NOT Say US Must Open Borders To 'As Many Migrants As Possible'
  • Fake News: Pope Francis Did NOT Give Pedophile Priest Diplomatic Immunity To Avoid Prison

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    Did Pope Francis give diplomatic immunity to a priest named Carlo Alberto Capella for the express purpose of avoiding a jail sentence for posessing and trading child pornography? No, that's not true: an article with a highly misleading headline to that effect was posted by a site that regularily twists the facts in its headlines and the first paragraphs of…

    • Jun 25, 2018
    • by: Maarten Schenk
    Fake News: Pope Francis Did NOT Give Pedophile Priest Diplomatic Immunity To Avoid Prison
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