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On 27 October 2016, social media users encountered an article reporting that the American Amish Brotherhood endorsed Donald Trump for President: The piece appeared on two different but related web sites, both of which masquerade as legitimate news outlets, illegally appropriating the trademarks of those organizations to drive traffic to malware-spreading sites via fabricated stories with clickbait headlines. These fake news sites can be distinguished from legitimate news sites by looking at their web addresses: the hoax sites generally contain an extra few letters at the end of the domain (e.g., .de or .co), or a slight misspelling in the title. Moreover, there is no group called the American Amish Brotherhood. There are Old Order Amish and New Order Amish (who are sometimes called the Amish Brotherhood) but no organized group called the American Amish Brotherhood, or AAB. The article also claimed that the telephone number for the Pennsylvania Amish Heritage Museum is (785) 273-0325, but that is actually the number for the Westboro Baptist Church.
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