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  • 2016-08-12 (xsd:date)
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  • 4-Year-Old Boy Accused of Hacking FBI Database (en)
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  • On 11 August 2014, the fake news web site World News Daily Report published a fabricated article reporting that a four-year-old boy had been arrested for deliberately hacking the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)'s databases to obtain information about his mother's new love interest: This article lay largely unnoticed until a string of high-profile, politically motivated hacking incidents were reported in mid-2016. Although the outlandish tale of the toddler hacker was able to slip in alongside those legitimate news reports, it was nothing more than a clickbait fabrication from a fake news web site. World News Daily Report regularly publishes outlandish falsehoods alongside unrelated photographs, boosting ad revenue via social media shares. Its disclaimer clearly states that WNDR's articles are completely false: Prior World News Daily Report hoaxes included claims an infant was born with stigmata in the Philippines, a lottery winner died attempting to gold-plate his genitals, a 14-year-old virgin was impregnated by a flu shot, a slaughterhouse employee murdered dozens of coworkers unnoticed for twenty years, a donor heart recipient received an organ from an executed serial killer and subsequently went on a murder rampage, a man's genitals were bitten off during the attempted rape of a pit bull, a meth-using babysitter ate a small child while high, a Smithsonian employee was caught raping a mummy, an overweight man sued Golden Corral after he was booted for staying too long, rat meat was sold as chicken wings across the United States immediately before the 2016 Super Bowl, a woman broke a world record after giving birth to 14 children by 14 different men, a Nazi sub surfaced in the Great Lakes, a mother sued a tampon company for taking her daughter's virginity, a 101-year-old Italian woman gave birth to a healthy baby using fertility treatments, CIA agents were caught smuggling cocaine across the Mexican border, a National Geographic journalist was eaten alive by a giant sunfish, Edward Snowden confirmed that Osama bin Laden is alive and well under CIA protection, and a fisherman caught a giant shark in the Great Lakes. (en)
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