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  • 2015-08-05 (xsd:date)
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  • Groom ‘Sues New Wife for Fraud’ After Seeing Her Without Make Up for First Time (en)
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  • In August 2015, a number of different online news outlets (such as Yahoo) published versions of a news item about a man who had supposedly sued his bride for fraud immediately after their wedding because she allegedly hid her lack of good looks from him through the use of makeup: Every outlet that ran this news item sourced it from the same place, a second-hand Emirates 24/7 article that read: This tale bore many of the hallmarks of a media hoax: An unlikely and outlandish story gleaned second-hand from unspecified foreign news sources, about an event taking place in a part of the world where facts are difficult to verify, and offering no details of name, date, or location (beyond the mention of an Algerian groom) nor any quotes or photographs of persons involved. This tale also bore a very strong resemblance to previous hoaxes, particularly one about a Chinese man who supposedly sued his wife for bearing him ugly children after he discovered she had undergone extensive cosmetic surgery prior to meeting him to disguise her less-than-desirable looks. Indeed, the story was a jape perpetrated by the French-language fake news web site El Manchar (i.e., The Stain), who proudly tweeted about how their fabricated story had made the listing of the day's top news stories: The Middle Eastern news site Gulf News ran virtually the same article in October 2016, which was picked up and repeated as fact by other online news outlets such as the UK's Metro: (en)
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