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  • 2017-05-03 (xsd:date)
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  • Did Man Stuck 71 Hours in Elevator Kill and Eat Wife To Survive? (en)
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  • On 18 April 2017, the entertainment website World News Daily Report (WNDR) published a fake news article claiming that Bruce Franklin, a Philadelphia man, killed and ate his wife after being stuck in an elevator for 71 hours: There is no truth to this story. WNDR is a well-known satirical website with a long history of peddling fictional news articles. The site carries this disclaimer: As with many of its fake news stories, WNDR used photographs from unrelated events in order to lend credence to its claims: Although we have not been able to uncover the exact source for the mugshot, that image has been online since 2011 when it was included in a gallery of funny hair mugshots. Another image in the article shows Philadelphia Police Deputy Commissioner Richard Ross, correctly identified by WNDR, but the photograph was taken during a City Council budget hearing in April 2016, not a press event concerning a man who just ate his wife. The final photograph in the article, of the elevator shaft, was taken inside the National Lift Tower in Northampton, England. (en)
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