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On 10 May 2016, several Facebook pages cited a 25 August 2015 article from fake news site World News Daily Report, claiming that National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed Osama bin Laden was living in luxury in the Bahamas (courtesy of the Central Intelligence Agency): It wasn't clear why a months-old article suddenly became popular on 10 May 2016, but at least two web sites published articles that day based on the fallacious claim. World News Daily Report exclusively publishes outlandish, fabricated claims (typically alongside unrelated photographs) in order to drum up traffic through social media sharing, and is responsible for a number of widespread hoaxes. The site's disclaimer openly noted that none of its content is reliable: Previous World News Daily Report fabrications included claims that a baby was born with stigmata in the Philippines, a lottery winner died after gold-plating his genitalia, a 14-year-old virgin was impregnated solely due to a flu shot, a slaughterhouse employee murdered dozens of coworkers for twenty years without anyone noticing, a donor heart recipient received an organ from an condemned serial killer and subsequently went on a killing spree, a man's genitals were chewed off during the attempted sexual assault of a pit bull, a meth-addled babysitter ate a toddler while high, and a group of minutemen busted two CIA agents trafficking cocaine across the Mexican border.
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