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  • 2014-04-16 (xsd:date)
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  • Leonardo DiCaprio Cast as MLK in New Film, Will Wear Blackface? (en)
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  • On 7 April 2014, the News Nerd web site published an article positing that not only would Leonardo DiCaprio (an unlikely choice) be portraying civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. in an upcoming biopic, but that the (white) actor would, to the ire and offense of many, be essaying that role in blackface: Many readers soon mistook the News Nerd article for a reporting of real news. However, News Nerd's stock in trade is publishing fabricated spoofs, such as reports that a new Ebola vaccine only works on white people and that Michael Vick was attacked by a pitbull. As the The News Nerd site's disclaimer states, all of their material is satirical in nature: Last updated: 9 January 2018