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In April 2018, Comedian Michelle Wolf became the target of a smear campaign after she offered numerous pointed jabs at members of the Trump administration, news media figures, and politicians at the annual White House Correspondents Dinner. Fake news articles were published falsely claiming that Wolf had been fired from her job at Comedy Central and that her stand-up special had been cancelled by Hulu. We also came across an image of purported newspaper clipping from July 2015 reported that Wolf had pled guilty to bestiality charges: This image is not a reproduction of a real newspaper article, nor was Michelle Wolf arrested in 2015 on bestiality charges. This image was created with a fake newspaper clip generator which allows users to make their own realistic headlines in just a few minutes. The user simply picks a name for a fake newspaper, a title for a fake news article, and writes a brief piece of text, and then the web site generates a passable image of a vintage newspaper clipping. Here's a look at the template: We created the following fake news article with this newspaper generator. (Just to clarify, the Snopes Daily did not publish an article entitled Fake News Spreads About Wolf After WH Dinner on 30 August 1732): The Hershey Sun, the newspaper mentioned in this fake news clipping about Michelle Wolf's being arrested for bestiality, also published an article debunking the image:
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