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On 5 March 2016, the web site ETHyper published an article claiming controversial pharmaceutical figure Martin Shkreli was shot and killed: ETHyper wasn't the first web site to make such a claim. The fake news site LinkBeef published an identical (down to the photos) article in mid-February 2016. Neither story was true, but neither site featured a disclaimer warning readers that its content was satirical in nature. ETHyper's About page indicated that it took its content from other web sites, and LinkBeef's photo of the purported shooting in fact was swiped from news articles about an unrelated tragedy. However, Shkreli was alive and tweeting after the publication of both items: LinkBeef is one of many fake news sites which fabricates fictional clickbait stories, including claims that a gang member died after gold plating his genitals, another heralding the birth of a lab-grown baby, an item claiming the pilot of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was found alive in Taiwan, and an assertion that a wealthy man sought to recruit scores of prospective mothers to bear his children.
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