Is restaurant chain Buffalo Wild Wings closing down in 2019? No, that's not true: some joker uploaded a prank to a website imitating the domain name of CBS News and it went viral but it is not real.
The story originated from an article published on September 16, 2018 on the website cbsnews.us (not the real cbsnews.com) titled "Famous Wing spot is closing all locations in 2019." (archived here) which opened:
Buffalo Wild Wings has filed for bankruptcy and has chosen to close all locations by the end of 2019. CEO Sally J. Smith released her statement today. "I never expected this day to
Users on social media only saw this title, description and thumbnail and it fooled many of them into thinking it was a real news article:
Famous Wing spot is closing all locations in 2019.
Buffalo Wild Wings has filed for bankruptcy and has chosen to close all locations by the end of 2019. CEO Sally J. Smith released her statement today. "I never expected this day to
But the 'announcements' page of the press section of the website of Inspire Brands (the mother company of Buffalo Wild Wings) has nothing about the news. And that is only natural because the site where the hoax was published is part of a network of prank websites centered around thefakenewsgenerator.com that allow anyone to create a realistic looking fake news article. The network offers a selection of misleading domain names that can be used to make it look like an article came from real news websites such as CBS News, Associated Press or The New York Times. Each hoax article comes with following disclaimer at the top of the page:
You clicked this fake news story. Now make your own!
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