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    Did a Saudi man named Mustafa Ali Hamad eat two of his four wives after getting stranded for 13 days in the desert after a car crash? No, that's not true: the story was made up by a Canadian entertainment website that makes a living by publishing fictional stories often involving weird crimes, bizarre sex acts or strange accidents. It…

    • Jan 14, 2019
    • by: Maarten Schenk
    Fake News: Saudi Man Did NOT Eat Two Of His Four Wives To Survive 13 Days Stranded In The Desert
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    Was 26-year old Abdullah al-Rashidi from Jizan in Saudi Arabia sentenced to 1,000 lashes for perfroming oral sex on a camel owned by his boss? No, that's not true: the story was made up by a Canadian entertainment website that makes a living by publishing fictional stories often involving weird crimes, bizarre sex acts or strange accidents. It is not…

    • Jan 14, 2019
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  • Fake News: Coast Guard Employee Did NOT Tell Cops She Was Forced Into Prostitution By Government Shutdown

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    Did Coast Guard employee Marleen Freeman tell the cops who arrested her for prostitution that she was forced into it to cope with the effects of the recent government shutdown. No, that's not true: the story was made up by a Canadian entertainment website that makes a living by publishing fictional stories often involving weird crimes, bizarre sex acts or…

    • Jan 10, 2019
    • by: Maarten Schenk
    Fake News: Coast Guard Employee Did NOT Tell Cops She Was Forced Into Prostitution By Government Shutdown
  • Fake News: Chinese Lunar Rover Finds No Evidence of American Moon Landings (Exactly As Expected...)

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    Did Chinese officials involved with their space program express skepticism that the American Moon landings ever happened because their recently landed lunar rover did not find any evidence for them? No, that's not true: the story was made up by a Canadian entertainment website that makes a living by publishing fictional stories often involving weird crimes, bizarre sex acts or…

    • Jan 5, 2019
    • by: Maarten Schenk
    Fake News: Chinese Lunar Rover Finds No Evidence of American Moon Landings (Exactly As Expected...)
  • Hoax Alert: '2001' Director Stanley Kubrick Did NOT Admit To Helping NASA Fake Moon Landings

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    A YouTube video purporting to show film director Stanley Kubrick confessing to having helped NASA fake video of the U.S. moon missions is actually a fictional element for a movie. If you don't believe us, then maybe you should tell it to Buzz Aldrin's face. Here are some clues. T. Patrick Murray, who made "Shooting Stanley Kubrick," explains in the…

    • Dec 11, 2015
    • by: Alan Duke
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