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On 8 October 2016, an article on the web site Da1lymail.com reported that Jamaican Olympic sprinter Usain Bolt donated $10 million to the nation of Haiti in the wake of devastation caused by Hurricane Matthew earlier that week: The information, replicated on other sites such as 3jamaica.com, us.blastingnews.com, and voice-online.co.uk, was incorrect, however. Like a previous instance of false reporting on Bolt's charitable activities, the story was a hoax created to amass web traffic and ad revenues. The web site's URL — Da1lyMail.com — mimics that of an actual online news site (DailyMail.com), but with the numeral 1 substituted for the first i in the domain name. Da1lyMail.com has a reputation for publishing trashy satirical news stories, including an article defaming Usain Bolt, Police Issue Arrest Warrant for Usain Bolt for Defiling 14 Year Old Girl. On the same day, other fake news web sites published similar articles stating that pop singer Shakira donated $15 million to help Haiti: While Shakira has visited Haiti in the past and contributed to its rebuilding after the 2010 earthquake, the more recent stories about her donating millions to Haitian hurricane relief — like those about Usain Bolt — are pure fiction.
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