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On 7 April 2017 the perennially dubious website World News Daily Report published what it called an account of a teacher stapling her student's lips shut for disrespecting her. The story is accompanied by a photograph of an unidentified woman, an image that has been disseminated online since 2012 in ugly mugshot galleries, matching the story's theme: There is a Central High School in Springfield, Missouri, where this story is set. But the only records for either Fransen or Dunlop are World News Daily Report and similarly suspect sites that have reproduced its story verbatim. Unlike those, however, World News Daily Report contains a disclaimer revealing its fictional nature: In 2012, Michigan State University student Zachary Tennen made a similar claim, saying that his own lips were stapled together at an off-campus party in an anti-Semitic attack against him. However, investigators later learned that while Tennen was punched in the mouth, there was no merit to his allegation that he was the victim of a hate crime; instead, multiple witnesses said that he had harassed and inappropriately touched women at the party, bringing about the hostile reaction.
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