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  • 2016-11-29 (xsd:date)
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  • In Wake of Election, Obama Passes Executive Order Banning All Fake News Outlets (en)
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  • On 29 November 2016, disreputable web site The Boston Tribune published a hoax news article appearing to report that U.S. President Barack Obama had signed an executive order banning all fake news outlets: The story quoted here was published by TheBostonTribune.com, a web site that has a history of publishing hoax stories, such as a completely baseless claim that Michelle Obama's mother would receive a $160,000 annual government pension, or that Wisconsin eliminated all FoodShare/EBT programs as of 1 December 2016. In addition to the web site's less-than-nodding acquaintance with the truth, a list of executive orders signed by the President is available to the public. While the president did sign two executive orders on 29 November 2016, neither of them was Executive Order 13749 or had anything to do with the media. The Boston Tribune made a second claim later in their hoax article, when (in a remarkable feat of self-awareness) its author wrote that Obama's alleged executive order was spurred by a story published by a fake news outlet, but masquerading as a real news outlet: While it is true that a common tactic used by purveyors of fake news in 2016 was to publish stories on misleading domain names, anyone attempting to imitate a legitimate news organization by adding .co to TheBostonTribune.com would be severely misinformed, as neither version of the web site is a reliable source for truthful information. The one aspect of The Boston Tribune's report that actually was based in reality was its mention of a speech that President Obama delivered in Berlin about the rampant spread of misinformation on the internet: He mentioned nothing about signing a ban into law, because the story reporting that he did so is indisputably false. (en)
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