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On 5 August 2016, the TMZHipHop web site published an article reporting that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump had privately donated $50,000 to secure the transfer of Charleston church shooting suspect Dylann Roof to a safer facility after the latter was beaten by a fellow inmate: The article was outwardly satirical in tone, quoting Trump as lamenting even a Mexican didn't deserve to be beaten in jail, that Roof could've easily tripped and [fallen] on the trigger of the gun that killed nine churchgoers, and that the mogul made that $50,000 back in an hour due to investments in foreign hairpieces. The Dylann Roof hoax was published by TMZHipHop, a sister site to fake news outlet TMZWorldNews, neither of which includes a disclaimer notice advising readers about the fictional nature of their content. Prior fabrications from that outlet include reports that a cop shot a black baby after mistaking a pacifier for a gun, a penile implant could alert women to cheating husbands and boyfriends, a college student was left in a coma after participating in a social media semen-drinking challenge, KKK members committed suicide en masse over the Harriet Tubman $20, a study revealed 80 percent of black men in Atlanta were gay, and police found a satanic dungeon under a Chuck E. Cheese.
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