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Example: [Collected via Email, December 2015] Origins: The condom challenge, a video challenge that involves dropping a condom filled with water onto somebody's head, started going viral in November 2015: As condom challenge videos grew in popularity, rumors started to spread that a teenager had died while performing the viral stunt: The above-quoted article was published by the fake news web site Empire News on 23 November 2015. According to a disclaimer on the web site, Empire News is for entertainment purposes only. As the condom challenge videos grew more popular, several other disreputable sites started spreading rehashed versions of the fake Empire News story. Huzlers, for instance, used the same premise but changed the name of the victim to 17-year-old Emily Stone. The web site Report Quickly used the name Ashley Vandergoff. These reports are not accurate. While the condom challenge is potentially dangerous, there have been no official reports about a teenager dying while filming the stunt.
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