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On 28 December 2016, fake news purveyor HeadlineNews.com published an article stating that Sherri Shepherd, an American actress and comedian best known as a former co-host of The View and star of the ABC sitcom Less Than Perfect, had died of a heart attack at age 49: Virtually every detail of the post is incorrect. Sherri Shepherd is not dead, nor was she hospitalized for a heart attack. She did not play the movie roles named above (it appears that the author confused Shepherd for another actress, Octavia Spencer, whose photo adorns the article and who did appear in all the listed films). Adding bad taste to injury, the final two paragraphs were copied and pasted, verbatim, from a People magazine article about the death of Carrie Fisher, who actually did suffer from cardiac arrest on a flight from London to Los Angeles on 23 December 2016. The web site carries a disclaimer characterizing its content as satire and funny, though in doing so it abuses the definitions of both terms:
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