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On 12 September 2016, the web site Newslo published an article claiming that conservative rocker Ted Nugent had used a racially pejorative term when discussing San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick's refusal to stand during pre-game playings of the U.S. national anthem: Like all items published by Newslo (and sister sites Religionlo and Politicalo), the article's first paragraph was based on actual remarks made by its subject (in this instance, Ted Nugent), the lead-in lifted from the web site Right Wing Watch's 12 September 2016 coverage of Nugent's speaking about President Obama and Kaepernick. But the material following that lead-in was fabricated, particularly the portion where Nugent was quoted as saying he'd read the Constitution several times and nowhere does it say that chimps get to invoke human rights. Across Newslo's three fake news sites (frequently attributed in Facebook shares to the Politicops domain) articles present a button enabling readers to show facts or hide facts. But all articles appear in hide facts mode by default, obfuscating reader ability to highlight untruths: Newslo, Politicalo, and Religionlo articles typically begin with a paragraph of fact-based information and subsequent embellishments to exclusion. Previous Newslo fabrications includ items asserting Chris Christie surmised a female Viagra would lead to an increase in lesbianism (and that he voted down a gender pay parity bill for religious reasons), an Alabama politician suggested saliva-based hunger tests for all food stamp recipients, Ted Cruz said the death of Antonin Scalia was suspicious, televangelist Pat Robertson said David Bowie was still alive after his death, Mike Pence opined that if abortion was allowed in instances of rape that women would try to get raped in order to obtain an abortion, and the father of Brock Turner lamented the absence of punishment for the victim in his son's case.
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