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  • 2016-09-13 (xsd:date)
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  • China's Jinhua Zoo Names Baby Gorilla Harambe McHarambeface? (en)
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  • On 10 September 2016, the entertainment web site Boston Leader published an article claiming that a zoo in China held an online naming contest for a baby gorilla and that Harambe McHarambeface ended up as the winning entry: While the Boston Leader's article was picked up by news outlets, this story is a hoax; the Jinhua Zoo did not name a baby gorilla Harambe McHarambeFace. The Boston Leader claims that it has been bringing you Boston's best news since 1932, but the web site was started on 9 September 2016, a day before the baby gorilla story was published. Furthermore, while Boston Leader claimed to glean its information from statements a local Jinhua Zoo official gave to local media outlets, we found no record of the Jinhua Zoo commenting on a baby gorilla named Harambe McHarambeface, nor its alleged Chinese name Heijin. . This hoax news story from the Boston Leader spoofed two big internet stories from 2016: The death of Harambe, a gorilla shot at a Cincinnati zoo after a child fell into its enclosure, and almost naming a British research vessel Boaty McBoatface (after a public contest) after an online contest. (en)
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