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  • 2019-06-18 (xsd:date)
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  • Did Police Shut Down a Nightclub for Fostering Cannibalism? (en)
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  • In June 2019, questionable websites published a series of posts that falsely claimed police in various cities throughout the world had shut down a nightclub after discovering that its owner had been killing patrons and then serving them as meat. On 14 June, for example, the website news-ap.com, whose logo appears designed to trick readers into believing it's the site of the highly reputable Associated Press (AP) news agency, posted an article with the headline BREAKING NEWS: Singapore Club Shut Down for Killing Patrons and Selling as Meat. The post went on to claim that: The report was no more than a fear-mongering, sensationalist fabrication, and was almost identical to other false articles published in the following days by the website ab-tc.com. The city and the name of the nightclub were different in each of the three other versions of the report: the Oasis nightclub in Adelaide, Australia; Club TiiTi in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago; the Afro 44 nightclub in Portland, Ore. Each version of the report specified that the nightclub was foreign-owned or that the owner was a foreigner, a detail that could risk provoking a xenophobic response among readers who were deceived into believing the reports were accurate. (en)
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