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In January 2015, the National Report published an article positing that singer Justin Bieber would be stepping into the shoes of the late actor Paul Walker to play the lead in the next installment of the Fast and Furious film series: Soon afterwards many social media users and websites were sharing this article, believing it to be genuine news — especially given that it came on the heels of a similar rumor started the previous month by HollywoodLife, who made a spoof video envisioning how Bieber would be taking over for Walker to complete Fast & Furious 7 (production of which had been interrupted by the latter's untimely death): However, there was no truth to any of this: The source of the article quoted above, National Report, was a fake news website whose disclaimer page noted that: The eighth entry in the Fast & Furious franchise, titled The Fate of the Furious, was released in 2017 and starred Vin Diesel rather than Justin Bieber.
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