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On 1 February 2017, a CNN impostor site published an article about an alleged reversal of course on environmental issues by President Donald Trump: There was no truth to this story, which originated with a clickbait fake news site that illegally appropriates the trademarks of legitimate news organizations in order to generate advertising revenue. The fake article appears to report that Trump's order revoked a prior (real) directive, which barred the Environmental Protection Agency as well as the departments of the Interior, Health and Human Services, and Agriculture from external communications. According to the article, Trump's order would also direct Congress to pass legislation that would lead to a 20 percent reduction in U.S. carbon emissions by 2022. In fact, President Trump signed no such order. In an especially striking contrast, the fake article also cited a tweet from a fake Trump account supporting the order, then followed it up with one from the president's actual account in the very next paragraph, as seen below:
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