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On 20 January 2016, the World News Daily Report web site published an article headlined Missouri: Babysitter on Crystal Meth Eats 3-Month-Old Toddler, which reported: There was no truth to the story, which originated with World News Daily Report (WNDR), a fake news site that publishes outlandish, fabricated stories in order to accrue social media share-based traffic. (The article also confusingly claimed the toddler survived the purported incident and, contrary to the headline, did not ever state that the babysitter ate any portion of the child.) Moreover, the basic narrative of the article mirrored that of a decades-old urban legend about a stoned babysitter's mistakenly cooking the infant in her care. WNDR's disclaimer admits that:
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