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  • 2016-02-16 (xsd:date)
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  • Was Rat Meat Sold as Chicken Wings at the Super Bowl? (en)
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  • On 15 February 2016, the web site Urban Image Magazine published an article reporting that 300,000 pounds of counterfeit chicken wings sold prior to that year's Super Bowl were actually rat meat (i.e., Rat Meat Sold as Chicken Wings at SuperBowl). However, the source cited by the web site was World News Daily Report, a well-known peddler of fabricated news. On 6 February 2016, that web site had published the claim just ahead of the 7 February 2016 football championship event: As with all of World News Daily Report's articles, the claim had no basis in truth. The article used an unrelated image published online in 2014, itself unrelated to chicken wings or the 2016 Super Bowl. The chicken wings are rat meat claim was swiped in 2017 by the fake news site Now44News. And as of November 2017, the rat meat as boneless chicken yarn was still going strong on social media, with two iterations continuing to make the rounds: However, in March 2017 the Food and Drug Administration addressed and debunked the story: (en)
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