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In Nov. 2020, the junk news site Your News Wire (which had previously renamed itself News Punch) returned to the world of fake news by pushing an election conspiracy rumor that international financier George Soros had been arrested in Philadelphia on charges related to election interference: None of this was true. Soros had neither been arrested nor charged with crimes related to election interference in any jurisdiction in the U.S. The Your News Wire article included an image of the supposed indictment against Soros, along with the claim that the judge put a publication ban on Soros’ arrest: In fact, this image was an altered version of a real indictment that had nothing to do with Soros. The actual indictment involved six Russian hackers charged with computer attacks intended to support Russian government efforts to undermine, retaliate against, or otherwise destabilize various foreign entities: The six defendants who were actually charged in this indictment are as follows: Yuriy Sergeyevich Andrienko (Юрий Сергеевич Андриенко), 32; Sergey Vladimirovich Detistov (Сергей Владимирович Детистов), 35; Pavel Valeryevich Frolov (Павел Валерьевич Фролов), 28; Anatoliy Sergeyevich Kovalev (Анатолий Сергеевич Ковалев), 29; Artem Valeryevich Ochichenko (Артем Валерьевич Очиченко), 27; and Petr Nikolayevich Pliskin (Петр Николаевич Плискин), 32.
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