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On 9 November 2016, just after Republican candidate Donald Trump defied nearly every poll and won a surprise victory in the U.S. presidential election, social media users encountered an article positing that President Obama had overruled Trump's victory via executive order and scheduled a revote for December 15: There was no truth to this story, which originated with a malware site that uses the illegally appropriated trademarks of legitimate news organizations in order to spread fake news on social media and generate advertising revenues. The creation and publication of this fabricated article was announced in advance of the election on Facebook:
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