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On 28 January 2016, the web site World News Daily Report published an article claiming 44-year old Smithsonian employee James Monroe was arrested on charges he raped a 2,500-year-old museum mummy: Although the claim was reproduced widely on social media and by other web sites, there was no truth to it. World News Daily Report publishes fake news, typically outlandish fabricated stories aimed at leveraging social media shares to drive site traffic. Its disclaimer admits: Prior World News Daily Report hoaxes claimed a baby in the Philippines was born with stigmata, a lottery winner died after trying to gold-plate his testicles, a 14-year-old virgin was impregnated by a flu shot, a slaughterhouse employee murdered dozens of his coworkers over a span of nearly two decades, a donor heart recipient went on a murder spree after receiving a heart from an executed serial killer, a man's genitalia was bitten off during the attempted sexual assault of a pit bull, and a meth-using babysitter ate a toddler.
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