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One common tactic used by hate-baiting fake news web sites is to use a photograph (often a mugshot) of a real person and create a story around it. On 29 January 2018, for instance, the web site World News Daily Report used an image of an obese woman to illustrate a fake news story about a rape attempt by an escaped hippopotamus at a Paris zoo: There is no truth to this story. The World News Daily Report is a well-known purveyor of fake news with has a long history of publishing misinformation and an apparent fascination with bestiality. In addition to this fake news story of a hippo attempting to rape a woman, they've previously published stories about zookeepers attempting to molest gorillas, a zookeeper attempting to rape an alligator, an octopus sexually assaulting a zoo employee, and a koala brothel in Australia. The web site carries a disclaimer stating that all of its content is satirical in nature: The woman pictured in this story is Vilma Soltesz, who passed away in 2012 after she was reportedly denied several flights back to the United States from Hungary due to her weight: A hippo escaped from a zoo in Tbilisi, Georgia, in June 2015 after a massive flood. A number of animals escaped and were subsequently put down: The pictured hippo, named Beggi, appears to have survived the ordeal.
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