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On 29 August 2017, houstonchronicle-tv.com (not Houston Chronicle) published an item appearing to report that boxing champion Floyd Mayweather donated $200 million to Hurricane Harvey relief efforts three days after a widely-publicized bout: The item was in part identifiable as fake news by its misleading URL; the actual Chronicle's web site is located at Chron.com. Although the story about Floyd Mayweather's Hurricane Harvey donation had no disclaimer, houstonchronicle-tv.com previously published fake news. The actual Houston Chronicle carried no such story. Variations: On 30 August 2017, readers began asking if Manny Pacquiao had donated a sizeable sum of money to Harvey relief efforts: The claim was published by the web site usa360-tv.com, and featured a logo nearly identical to that of the New York Daily News (again, posing as a well-known paper). In addition to structural similarities between the two fake news sites, another veracity-related clue was near-identical verbiage employed by both pages:
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