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On 20 August 2017, the unreliable web site Your News Wire falsely reported that Liz MacKean, a controversial former BBC journalist, had been found dead in suspicious circumstances: MacKean worked for the BBC's flagship nightly current affairs show Newsnight for 14 years, according to the Guardian. In 2011, she investigated allegations of child sexual abuse by BBC television personality Jimmy Savile. Her Newsnight editor instructed her to drop those investigations. The story was broken by a rival channel and became a massive scandal with far-reaching ramifications. In 2013, MacKean left the BBC. It is true that Dando's murder has not been solved, but there is no reasonable comparison between that violent death, and MacKean's death from a stroke, which has been reported by multiple U.K. news organizations as well as the BBC. The Your News Wire article presents no evidence of the suspicious circumstances it claims surrounded MacKean's death from a stroke, which was announced on 18 August 2017. Neither does the article present a rationale as to why MacKean would be killed years after the revelation of historical child sexual abuse at the BBC, which she had investigated before she left the institution in 2013. Your News Wire has a history of publishing false and unsubstantiated stories and conspiracy theories. The claim that Liz MacKean's death took place in suspicious circumstances is the latest.
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