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In June 2016, the web site Global Network published an article reporting that Yellowstone National Park had been evacuated due to fears of an imminent volcanic eruption: The Global Network cited the web site Trending News Guide as their source of the information, which in turn cited Liberty First News, which had cited a (now-deleted) 2014 report published by the Civic Tribune — a web site that allows users to submit (their) own news. Back in 2014, a Yellowstone official debunked the Civic Tribune's report as completely false: The Civic Tribune's report was untrue in 2014 and remains so now. The Yellowstone National Park web site makes no mention of any recent evacuation, and the National Park Service's web site includes no alerts about an imminent volcanic eruption. Additionally, the United States Geological Survey's Yellowstone Volcano Observatory, which monitors volcanic, hydrothermal, and earthquake activity in the Yellowstone Plateau region, reports that activity in the area is at normal levels. The Yellowstone National Park Facebook page also addressed the rumor on 18 June 2016 via Facebook:
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