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On 20 October 2016, Nevada County Scooper (also known as NC Scooper) published an article that appeared to report that according to a WikiLeaks document, the Clintons bought a $200 million mansion in the Maldives: Many social media users appeared to share the article without reading down to the bottom of the page and catching the piece's less-than-serious closing sentence: The image that appeared with the story, purportedly showing Bill Clinton walking his dog Buster at the mansion, was in fact a stock photograph dating back to at least 2015. NC Scooper's manifesto explains that the web site's content is purely satirical, and not meant to be taken seriously: The page about the Clintons' Maldives mansion wasn't the first NC Scooper effort that readers mistook for straightforward news. Prior crossover articles included claims that five million uncounted Bernie Sanders ballots were found on Hillary Clinton's e-mail server (and that Sanders had called for chemtrail reform), that Meg White was announced as the new drummer for the band Rush, that Merle Haggard had left his entire estate to a LGBT group, and that roving gun confiscation vans had been spotted in California.
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