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On October 21, 2021, news broke that Halyna Hutchins, the director of photography on the movie Rust, had been killed after a prop gun was fired by actor Alec Baldwin. As news of the accident made waves on social media, at least two fake newspaper clippings were circulated which added unfounded and untrue details to the story. The first claimed that Baldwin had been asked to do another take on the set. The actor refused, according to the fake clipping, and then said: How about I just fuckin' shoot the both of ya and then fired the prop gun. This is not a genuine news article. The majority of the above-displayed text in the above-displayed image comes from an article published in Variety. It appears that whoever created this fake newspaper clipping simply copied Variety's article, and then slipped in a fictitious quote. Here's the passage from the genuine news source: While it's unclear where this fake newspaper clipping originated, it was spread on the internet forum 4chan in a thread that disparaged the left's favorite actor. A second fake news clipping was also circulated in the immediate wake of this tragic accident. In this fake newspaper clipping, it is claimed that Baldwin fired the prop gun while waving it around during a rant about former President Donald Trump: This, again, is a fake news article that was created by inserting a fictitious sentence into a real news piece. The majority of the text seen above was originally published by Fox News. The original Fox News article, however, did not report that Baldwin had been ranting about Trump. Here's the excerpt from Fox News:
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