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Did actor and writer Gene Hackman say Donald Trump could easily turn out to be one of the best presidents America has ever seen? No, that's not true: the fake quote has been pushed several times by several sites that are part of the same network of Macedonian fake news websites but it is misattributed. Hackman didn't say it. The…

Did civil war just erupt in Sweden (again) after irate Swedes burned down nine muslim refugee centers to the ground (again)? No, the same old fake story which has been circulating since 2015 has been going viral again after being posted on the newest website of a network of Macedonian fake news sites we reported on last week. This time…

Was 47-year Boris Madison from Colorado attacked by a grizzly bear and kept captive by it for two weeks while he had to endure several rapes by the animal? No, that's not true: the story was made up by a site that invents fake tales of bizarre crimes and weird sex acts purely for entertainment purposes. It did not happen…

Was 24-year-old Mike Hunt rushed to hospital with a severe allergic reaction on his lips after his girlfriend Jane Lee Hopkins put peanut butter on her vagina in order to punish him for cheating? No, that's not true: the story was originally published by a website specializing in making up stories about bizarre crimes and weird sex acts purely for…

Did Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah, the pilot of vanished flight MH307, mysteriously resurface in Taiwan after being found on a river bank by villagers? No, that's an old story from a site that makes up articles about bizarre crimes and sex acts for entertainment purposes. It did not happen for real. The story was originally published in 2016 but went…

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…

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…

Does a video show an Israeli policeman strangling a Palestinian child to death near some kind of escalator? No, that's not true: a video filmed in the Swedish city of Malmö has been making the rounds since December 2017 with a false description. The policeman was not from Israel (and not a cop), the child was not Palestinian and nobody…