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On 29 September 2016, the web site Newslo published an article reporting that televangelist Pat Robertson had urged Christian men to boycott intercourse with wives who were planning to vote for Hillary Clinton: Like all items published by Newslo (and sister sites Religionlo, >Politicalo, and Politcops), the article's first paragraph was inspired by comments Robertson genuinely made in early 2016. Robertson was answering a question from a viewer about a badly behaved teen, advising the questioner that the youngster ought to be taken to the woodshed to learn about the blessings of discipline: Newslo articles typically start off with a paragraph of fact-based information, and the balance of the articles is almost entirely composed of fabricated details. Newslo's trio of fake news sites (often displaying under the Politicops domain on social media) include a button enabling readers to show facts or hide facts to distinguish the true portions of the text from the fabricated additions. But all articles display by default in hide facts mode, ensuring most readers see articles (or their headlines alone) without their embellishments highlighted: Previous Newslo fabrications include claims Chris Christie posited a female Viagra would cause an uptick in lesbianism (and separately, that he voted down a gender pay parity bill for religious reasons), an Alabama politician proposed saliva-based hunger tests for food stamp recipients, Ted Cruz said he'd run as a Democrat if something affected Clinton's candidacy, Mike Pence opined that if abortion was legal in cases of rape women would try to get raped in order to obtain an abortion, the father of Brock Turner lamented the absence of punishment for the victim in his son's case, and that Robertson asserted David Bowie did not die but was kidnapped by demons.
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