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  2. Death hoax - Wikipedia

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    On 8 January 1992, Headline News almost became the victim of a death hoax. A man phoned HLN claiming to be President George H. W. Bush's physician, alleging that Bush had died following an incident in Tokyo where he vomited and lost consciousness; however, before anchorman Don Harrison was about to report the news, executive producer Roger Bahre, who was off-camera, immediately yelled "No!

  3. List of fake news websites - Wikipedia

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    Fake news websites are those which intentionally, but not necessarily solely, publish hoaxes and disinformation for purposes other than news satire. Some of these sites use homograph spoofing attacks , typosquatting and other deceptive strategies similar to those used in phishing attacks to resemble genuine news outlets.

  4. Faked death - Wikipedia

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    A faked death, also called a staged death, is the act of an individual purposely deceiving other people into believing that the individual is dead, when the person is, in fact, still alive. The faking of one's own death by suicide is sometimes referred to as pseuicide or pseudocide . [ 1 ]

  5. Fake news - Wikipedia

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    Fake news is false or misleading information presented as news. [10] [16] The term as it developed in 2017 is a neologism (a new or re-purposed expression that is entering the language, driven by culture or technology changes). [17]

  6. Woman fakes her own death to escape student loans - AOL

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    She obtained a fake death certificate on the Philippine black market, saying she died in a car crash in 2013. She joked, "I'm dead on paper, but still kicking in Brooklyn." REALTED: See photos of ...

  7. Church leaders say fake newspapers like 'Wisconsin Catholic ...

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  8. Disinformation attack - Wikipedia

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    An examination of twitter activity prior to the 2017 French presidential election indicates that 73% of the disinformation flagged by Le Monde was traceable to two political communities: one associated with François Fillon (right-wing, with 50.75% of the fake link shares) and another with Marine Le Pen (extreme-right wing, 22.21%). 6% of ...

  9. Pope Francis blames ‘fake news’ for Trump assassination ...

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    Pope Francis recently said that "fake news" was the root cause of the assassination attempts against President-elect Donald Trump last year. The Catholic News Agency reported on the pontiff’s ...