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With a mix of misogynist stereotypes and misconstrued photographs, a long-running satirical site threw up a piece on 29 November 2018 full of its usual disinformation. In this case, World News Daily Report (WNDR) reported that a Pennsylvania man emerged relatively healthy after an unusual operation, only to find that he literally forgot how to drive: As junk news sites often do, WNDR used photographs lifted from legitimate news stories for their own purposes. This time the pictured person featured in the story was James Boysen, a Texas man who actually did make history in June 2015 when he was the patient in a first-of-its-kind transplant (of a partial skull and scalp, not a brain): The story also included a photograph of a man whom WNDR identified as Dr. James Ford. But in reality that picture was taken in November 2011 and originally posted on a U.S. Army Flickr page. We alerted the Army regarding the misidentification and apparent unauthorized use of the photograph of Col. George E. Peoples. As ever, WNDR's bogus story included this disclaimer at the bottom:
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