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On 23 October 2016, the disreputable web site Conservative Daily Post published a factually inaccurate, fear-mongering article reporting that Russian leader Vladimir Putin had just given U.S. President Barack Obama and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton 24 hours to stop smearing Russia, or else risk starting World War III: The article is rife with factual inaccuracies and baseless claims (not to mention misspellings). In fact, the credibility of this article is in question from the first sentence, when it states that the two countries were never allies. In actuality, the United States and the Soviet Union worked together during World War II. The article also claimed that Russia was stationing dozens of large aircraft carriers near Syria; Russia only has a single aircraft carrier. While Conservative Daily Post linked to several legitimate news articles about the rising tensions between Russia and the United States, none of them provided any evidence that Putin had given Obama and Clinton an ultimatum to stop smearing Russia, gave any information about where and when Putin issued the threat, or explained how the United States could possibly comply. It's worth noting that the original article has been up longer than 24 hours, and so far as we can tell, WWIII has not yet started.
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