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On 25 October 2016, the Empire News web site published an article detailing the supposed arrest of a Nebraska man who had engaged in a vigilante killing spree during which he murdered more than 30 registered sex offenders over a span of 15 years: There was no truth to this story, which originated with (and was solely reported by) Empire News, a fake news web site whose disclaimer identifies its contents as entertainment: The very same fictional story was republished on 15 December 2017 by sister sites YourNewsWire and NeonNettle under the headlines Local Hero Arrested After Killing 30 Pedophiles in Murder Spree and Vigilante Arrested for Killing 30 Pedophiles in Mass Murder Spree, respectively. Both of these sites are also well known fake news sites that traffic in clickbait and fabricated news.
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