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Example:[Collected via e-mail, November 2015] Origins: In a 1 November 2015 article titled 318 People Shot in Chicago on Halloween, Obama Declares State of Emergency, the web site Celebtricity reported that:That’s an increase in shootings and gun deaths compared to Halloween of 2014, when 134 people were wounded and 36 were slain in shootings. This October , 446 people in total were slain in Chicago, with 137 dying from gunshot wounds. The story was demonstrably false, and Celebtricity's (hard to find) disclaimer identifies it as a fake news site whose content is for entertainment only: Previous Celebtricity news hoaxes included stories about sex dolls being marketed for pedophiles, a claim NBA star Michael Jordan was indifferent to violence sparked by a line of shoes bearing his name, a tall tale about a Wendy's worker who tainted a customer's food with bodily fluids, and a yarn about a couple purportedly arrested for selling real estate on the moon.
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