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In January 2017, a November 2016 article published by TMZHipHop (formerly CelebtriCity) began circulating on social media, appearing to report that President Trump intended to criminalize transgender people: This story is fake. TMZHipHop and its related sites (TMZWorldStar/TMZUncut/TMZBreaking) are fake news outfits posing subsidiaries of the gossip web site TMZ. None include a disclaimer tipping readers off to the fact the sites' (frequently salacious or alarming) content is purely fabricated. TMZHipHop and sister sites' previous falsehoods included claims that a police officer shot a black baby after mistaking a pacifier for a firearm, that a penile implant exposed to cheating men to their romantic partners, and that police found a Satanic dungeon under a Chuck E. Cheese (a story that coincidentally resembled the late-2016 Pizzagate conspiracy theory).
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