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  • Fake News: Angela Merkel Did NOT Say Trump Has Almost Destroyed The New World Order

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    Did German chancellor Angela Merkel say that U.S. President Donald Trump has almost destroyed "The New World Order"? No, that's not true: a notoriously unreliable website misquoted Merkel based on a year-old news article. She never said it. The story originated from an article published by NewsPunch (formerly YourNewsWire) on December 7, 2018 titled "Angela Merkel: Trump Has Almost Destroyed…

    • Dec 9, 2018
    • by: Maarten Schenk
    Fake News: Angela Merkel Did NOT Say Trump Has Almost Destroyed The New World Order
  • Fake News: Border Patrol Agents Did NOT Find Body Of 6-Year-Old Girl Raped By 30 Men

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    Did U.S. Border Patrol agents find the body of a 6-year-old girl who was raped by 30 men near the Mexican border? No, that's not true: we contacted U.S. Customs and Border Protection to inquire about the incident and they told us they never heard about it. The only sites that mention it seem to base themselves on a video…

    • Dec 3, 2018
    • by: Maarten Schenk
    Fake News: Border Patrol Agents Did NOT Find Body Of 6-Year-Old Girl Raped By 30 Men
  • Fake News: Minneapolis Did NOT Install Sharia Hotline to Report Americans Who Criticize Islam

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    Did Minneapolis set up a "Sharia Hotline" to report Americans criticizing Islam? No, that's not true: a website that makes a living by copy pasting real bits of news and then adding a fake headline to attract clicks has claimed that a new hotline to report hate crimes is a "sharia hotline". It is not true. The story originated from…

    • Nov 29, 2018
    • by: Maarten Schenk
    Fake News: Minneapolis Did NOT Install Sharia Hotline to Report Americans Who Criticize Islam
  • Fake News: Trump Did NOT Warn Flu Shots Are The Greatest 'Scam' In Medical History

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    Did President Trump warn flu vaccinations are the greatest scam in medical history? No, that's not true: an old article from YourNewsWire (a fake news website that got fact checked so often it had to change its name) was copied by several other sites and keeps going viral (pun not intended). It was all based on an old radio interview…

    • Nov 19, 2018
    • by: Maarten Schenk
    Fake News: Trump Did NOT Warn Flu Shots Are The Greatest 'Scam' In Medical History
  • Fake News Website YourNewsWire Renamed NewsPunch (Again) -- Possibly To Avoid Filters

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    YourNewsWire used to be one of the most notorious websites spreading fake news, often by using bits and pieces of real news articles from other websites to create new articles which would then get a headline and introduction that would greatly overstate or even outright lie about what was really happening. Earlier this year Poynter did a profile about the…

    • Nov 4, 2018
    • by: Maarten Schenk
    Fake News Website YourNewsWire Renamed NewsPunch (Again) -- Possibly To Avoid Filters
  • Fake News: Grassley Did NOT Vow To Imprison False Kavanaugh Accusers -- YourNewsWire Quietly Changes Headline

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    Did Senator Chuck Grassley "vow to imprison" anybody falsely accusing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh? No, that's not true. Infamous fake news website YourNewsWire made the claim in a headline and then later changed "imprison" to "prosecute" but evidence of the change remains visible in the URL of the story and in an archived version (along with several partially plagiarised…

    • Oct 3, 2018
    • by: Maarten Schenk
    Fake News: Grassley Did NOT Vow To Imprison False Kavanaugh Accusers -- YourNewsWire Quietly Changes Headline
  • Is Fake News Website YourNewsWire Being Throttled To Death By Facebook?

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    Regular readers of this site are doubtlessly familiar with notorious fake news website YourNewsWire.com. Over the years we have debunked countless stories from it, and we are not the only fact checking website that regularily took aim at hoaxes spread by the site. But now it looks like the site has had its reach fatally reduced by Facebook around the…

    • Aug 23, 2018
    • by: Maarten Schenk
    Is Fake News Website YourNewsWire Being Throttled To Death By Facebook?
  • Fake News: Infowars And Alex Jones Have NOT Been Permanently Banned From Facebook (Yet?)

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    Were Infowars and Alex Jones permanently banned from Facebook? That remains to be seen. Infowars writer Paul Joseph Watson claimed on Twitter the ban that took down their pages on monday August 6, 2018 was "permanent" but a post on Facebook's newsroom page (and the screenshot that Watson added to his tweet) contradict the claim. Watson tweeted on August 6,…

    • Aug 6, 2018
    • by: Maarten Schenk
    Fake News: Infowars And Alex Jones Have NOT Been Permanently Banned From Facebook (Yet?)
  • Fake News: CNN Boss DID NOT Order 'Blackout' Over Chicago Unrest; DID NOT Warn "It Will Hurt Democrats"

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    CNN's chief Jeff Zucker did not order his producers and reporters to squash any reporting on violence in Chicago as a way to protect Democrats from criticism, contrary to a story that's trending on social media. In fact, Zucker is not calling the shots at CNN for a while since he recently began a two-month medical leave to deal with…

    • Aug 5, 2018
    • by: Alan Duke
    Fake News: CNN Boss DID NOT Order 'Blackout' Over Chicago Unrest; DID NOT Warn "It Will Hurt Democrats"
  • 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"
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