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Nov 2, 2016 · 1. Thousands of fraudulent ballots for Clinton uncovered. In October, a story claimed that "tens of thousands" of fraudulent ballots had been found in a warehouse in Ohio. The ballots had...
- Mosque shooting. Hours after it was reported that six people had been shot dead in an attack on a mosque in Quebec City this week, stories began appearing online linking the massacre to Syrian refugees who had supposedly arrived in the country two weeks earlier.
- Pope backs Trump. In the run-up to the US elections, right-wing blogs proudly proclaimed that Pope Francis had outed himself as a Donald Trump supporter.
- Pizzagate. Of all the bizarre rumours attached to Hillary Clinton during the US election, the weirdest was an online conspiracy theory alleging that high-level Democrats were operating a paedophile ring from Comet Ping Pong, a Washington DC pizzeria popular with politicos.
- Turkey joining the EU. Leading Brexit campaign group Vote Leave came under fire in the run-up to the June referendum for a poster that falsely claimed Turkey was about to join the European Union and that the UK could not prevent its admission.
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Nov 18, 2016 · - The Washington Post. Advertisement. This article was published more than 7 years ago. PostEverything. My ‘fake news list’ went viral. But made-up stories are only part of the problem....
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Apr 3, 2020 · BBC. We've all been there. A coronavirus post that could be true and sounds about right, but how do we know it's accurate? To help, the BBC's disinformation-monitoring team is fact-checking and...
May 29, 2017 · Craig Silverman. BuzzFeed News Media Editor. Sara Spary. BuzzFeed Staff. Posted on May 29, 2017, 11:58 am. Laura Gallant / BuzzFeed. Shrina Begum, the owner of Karri Twist, and the fake news story that's ruining her business. Shrina Begum couldn’t understand why people were calling her Indian restaurant to accuse it of selling human meat.
Jul 22, 2022 · July 22, 2022 at 4:58 pm Updated July 22, 2022 at 5:55 pm. By. The Associated Press. A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are...
Dec 9, 2022 · The week in fake news: These tales went viral but failed the truth test. Dec. 9, 2022 at 5:34 pm Updated Dec. 9, 2022 at 6:34 pm. By. The Associated Press. A roundup of some of the most...
