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On 16 March 2017, the web site Newslo published an article positing that U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price had said that it would be better for the federal budget if cancer patients died quickly: This quote was not a genuine statement issued by Secretary Price. It originated with Newslo, a hybrid web site that publishes articles containing a mixture of fact and fiction: The web site's hybrid articles are accompanied by two buttons labeled show facts and hide facts that allow readers to see which parts of an article are factual and which parts are fictional. In this case, pressing the show facts button highlighted the introductory paragraph of the article, indicating that the remainder of the article, the portion containing the fake Price quote, was fictional: Newslo is a rather prolific purveyor of fake news, having previously penned articles containing fake quotes from Steve Bannon, KellyAnne Conway, and Mike Pence.
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