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  • 2018-12-06 (xsd:date)
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  • Were Two Altar Boys Arrested for Putting Marijuana in a Cathedral's Censer? (en)
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  • An article about two altar boys being arrested for putting marijuana in a censer (incense burner) at the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Spain was recirculated on social media in December 2018: This is not a genuine news report. The story appears to have first gone viral after it was published on the Spanish-language satirical web site haynoticia.es in January 2018. According to a report in the newspaper El Pais, more than 2 million people visited Haynoticia.es to read the story, it racked up more than 250,000 interactions on social media, and at least one genuine newspaper republished the article: The story likely reached American audiences when it was published in English on 11 June 2018 on the entertainment web site ThereIsNews.com. Both Haynoticia.es and Thereisnews.com carry disclaimers labeling their content as fiction: The report about the altar boys' being arrested is a completely rooted in fiction, but the featured image truly does show the relatively huge censer at the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, which is more than 5 feet tall and swings through the church via a pulley system: (en)
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