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  • 2016-09-14 (xsd:date)
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  • Shipment of Samsung Smartphones Explodes During Transport, 3 Dead (en)
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  • On 1 September 2016, World News Daily Report published an article reporting that a truck carrying a load of Samsung smartphones exploded and killed three people: Samsung did recall millions of smartphones in September 2016 due to a battery issue that caused some units to catch fire or explode, but the report about an exploding truckful of Samsungs was just a fabricated clickbait story originating with a fake news site. The header image of a flaming tractor-trailer dated to an unrelated 2012 story, as did the second image (which depicted a massive vehicle pileup in Florida that year). World News Daily Report exclusively publishes outlandish fabrications alongside repurposed photographs, attracting an audience via social media users enticed by its salacious (and invented) claims. The site's disclaimer clearly states that WNDR's content is completely false: Previous World News Daily Report hoaxes include claims an infant in the Philippines was born with stigmata, a lottery winner died after he tried to gold-plate his genitals, a 14-year-old virgin was impregnated by a flu shot injection, a slaughterhouse employee killed dozens of coworkers over a period of twenty years, a donor heart recipient received an organ from a serial killer and subsequently went on a killing spree, a man's genitals were destroyed during the attempted rape of a pit bull, a meth-using babysitter ate a small child while high, a Smithsonian employee was discovered raping a mummy, an overweight man sued Golden Corral after he was ejected for staying too long, rat meat was sold as chicken wings in the United States immediately before the 2016 Super Bowl, a woman broke a world record for giving birth to 14 children by 14 different men, a Nazi sub surfaced in the Great Lakes, a mother sued a tampon company for taking her daughter's virginity, a 101-year-old Italian woman gave birth to a healthy baby following fertility treatments, CIA agents were caught smuggling cocaine across the Mexican border, a National Geographic journalist was eaten alive by a giant sunfish, Edward Snowden said that Osama bin Laden is alive and well under CIA protection, a fisherman caught a giant shark in the Great Lakes, and a four-year-old boy was arrested by the FBI for hacking their databases. (en)
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