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On 12 January 2016, the web site World News Daily Report published an article reporting that a 37-year-old Florida man had suffered some very serious groin injuries after being bitten by a pit bull: There was no truth to this story, however. World News Daily Report is a fake news site, one of many such clickbait sites that publish salacious fictional tales in order to attract social media users and generate advertising revenues. The site's disclaimer admits: The article included the photograph seen above, which purportedly depicted the unfortunate Sanchez after his canine sexual misadventure. However, the image neither featured the individual named in the article, nor was it related to any bestiality incidents. Its first appearance on the web occurred in 2009, and its precise source was unknown. Previous World News Daily Report hoaxes reported that a baby in the Philippines was born with stigmata, that a lottery winner died after attempting to gold-plate his testicles, that a 14-year-old virgin was directly impregnated by a flu shot, that a slaughterhouse employee surreptitiously murdered dozens of his coworkers over a span of nearly two decades, and that a donor heart recipient went on a murder spree after being transplanted with an organ from an executed serial killer.
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