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  • 2016-08-26 (xsd:date)
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  • Usain Bolt Donates All His $20 Million Olympic Earnings to His Former School (en)
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  • On 24 August 2016, the web site TheGuard1an.com published an article reporting that Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt, a nine-time Olympic medalist, had donated all of his $20 million Olympic earnings to his high school in Jamaica: This report was a work of fiction. The Guard1an is a fake news site that masquerades as a real news site by using a URL similar to that of a legitimate news publication, in this case the UK newspaper The Guardian. As the former's disclaimer warns, however these two entities are not related: The Guard1an wasn't the only fake news web site to publish a fabricated story about Usain Bolt following his performance at the 2016 Olympic Games. Onetainment.com posted a similar false report about Bolt's supposedly donating his income to construct a new stadium in Jamaica. Usain Bolt has indeed donated significant amounts of money to similar efforts, just not to the scale posited by these fake news reports: (en)
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