Did 28-year-old Mike Little from Portland, Oregon contract syphilis after licking a stripper pole at a strip club and did he then sue the club? No, that's not true: the story was made up by a site that invents stories about bizarre crimes and sex acts for enterainment purposes. It is not real and did not happen. The story originated…
Was 27-year old Sea World employee Thomas C. Frampton arrested in San Diego for smuggling over 12,500 penguin penises to China? No, that's not true: the story was made up by a website that specializes in inventing tales about bizarre crimes and weird sex acts, purely for entertainment. It is not true and did not happen. The story originated from…
Did 35-year-old midget Khalid Ali Razzaz, a former ISIS soldier, enter Sweden as a refugee by pretending to be a 6-year-old boy? No, that's not true: the story was made up by a site that makes a living by inventing tales of bizarre crimes and sex acts so people would visit the site and click on their ads. The story…
Was 57-year-old wax museum empoyee Robert Murphy from New York arrested for sexually assaulting President Donald Trump's wax sculpture? No, that's not true and he didn't sexually assault several other wax celebrities either. The story was made up by a site that publishes invented stories about bizarre crimes and weird sex acts for entertainment purposes. It is not real. The…
Was 31-year-old James Francis Alexander found dead in a hotel room in Dublin, Ireland and did this man claim he was the "real" Prince Harry? No, that's not true: the entire thing was made up in 2016 by a site that habitually invents stories about weird crimes and bizarre sex acts for entertainment purposes. It was not real. Despite this…
Was the royal wedding between Prince Harry and Meghan Markle cancelled because the bride was deported by accident after her landing card got lost? No, that's not true: the story was made up by a satirical news website making fun of the recent "Windrush" scandal in the U.K. that cast uncertainty over the immigration status of about 57.000 people. The…
Forget Macedonia, the real capital of fake news might just be Accra in Ghana On April 17, 2018 former First Lady Barbara Bush passed away but a full day earlier an article prematurely announcing her death from a website pretending to be CNN managed to rack up a combined 2.3 million likes, shares and comments on Facebook. Barely a week…
Did the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge announce "Leroy" would be the name of their newborn son? No, that's a hoax spread by a satirical website. There has been no official announcement of the name just yet. The story originated from an article published by the Southend News Network on April 23, 2018 titled "Duke and Duchess of Cambridge name…
Fake news website texas-express.com published a story (archived here) titled "Guyana, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago to enjoy visa-free travel to the United States" which opened: WASHINGTON DC -- Nationals from three countries; Guyana, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, have been selected among some Asian countries to enjoy visa-free travels to the United States in the Phase 2 of Trump's immigration policy.When…
Fake news website texas-express.com published a story (archived here) titled "VISA FREE TRAVEL: Trump and Duterte sign a bilateral agreement" which opened: MANILA -- U.S. President Donald Trump and the Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte have sign a bilateral visa agreement that abolishes visa requirements for both countries....Details that resulted in this agreement were not disclose to the media as it…
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