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  • 2015-01-16 (xsd:date)
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  • Did a 600 Pound Woman Give Birth to a 40 Pound Baby? (en)
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  • On Jan. 14, 2015, World News Daily Report published an article titled Australia: 600 Pound Woman Gives Birth to 40 Pound Baby. (The claim resurfaced when it was reproduced by the generally satirical site NYMeta on 4 June 2015.) According to the original claim, an unnamed single mother in Australia weighing 600 pounds gave birth to what was possibly the largest baby in recorded history: The article included a purported quote from the woman's doctor, whose name was also not provided: While many readers took the claim at face value and subsequently shared it on social media sites, there was no truth at all to the story. An image of the woman used in the World News Daily Report article was taken from the TLC channel's reality show My 600-lb Life, and the woman pictured hailed not from Australia, but from Mississippi. World News Daily Report's disclaimer page states: World News Daily Report's prior fake news articles includes a widely shared story about an eyewitness account to Jesus' miracles, another claiming loggers mistakenly cut down the world's oldest tree, and a hoax involving a prehistoric shark purportedly discovered in Pakistan. Our article 6 Quick Ways to Spot Fake News explores content (like this) that targets social media likes and shares. (en)
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