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On 7 November 2016, the click bait web site Pipegrass shared a rather alarming story reporting that Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton was preparing her staff to release an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) that would wipe out all electronic communications in the United States, most of Canada and even Mowscow in an effort to hide any further e-mail leaks before the 8 November 2016 election. This story was lifted entirely from the satirical web site, The Onion. Material published by the nearly three-decade-old humor publication isn't any more real than political sketches on Saturday Night Live are. However, the fact that the story was plagiarized by another site prompted some readers who only encountered it outside its original context if it had any merit.
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