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On 8 April 2016, The Marshall Report published a story reporting that Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz was married to his third cousin: The Marshall Report is a blog that traffics in sensational (and often false) news items. While The Marshall Report is not explicitly a fake news web site, this blog frequently uses satirical and fake clickbait articles as the basis for its reports. In this instance, The Marshall Report pointed to an article published on 14 May 2015 on the fake news web site World News Daily Report as its sole piece of evidence: The World News Daily Report states in its disclaimer that its articles are fictional: World News Daily Report has also reported (among other things) that a Smithsonian employee was arrested for sex with a mummy, a 101-year-old woman gave birth, a lottery winner died after gold-plating his genitals, and that a babysitter ate a toddler when she was high on crystal meth.
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