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On 12 May 2016, George Zimmerman — who was acquitted of shooting and killing 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in 2012 — put the gun he used to kill the teenager up for sale on a gun auction web site. A few days after the gun was listed, the entertainment web site Freddy Mag published a fake news article reporting that musician Kendrick Lamar had purchased the gun, then destroyed it live on stage: This story is a piece of fiction from a satire web site. Freddy Mag labels itself as number one in satirical urban culture news at the bottom of their site. Additionally, the web site's Facebook page states that its content is not real news: The gun sale is real, and riddled with controversy. The first gun-auction site quickly pulled Zimmerman's listing. The second site had to temporarily take down the page after troll accounts crashed its servers.
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