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  • 2016-07-29 (xsd:date)
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  • Celebrity Summoned to Jury Duty in Your Town! (en)
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  • Everybody gets called for jury duty at one time or another, even famous people, but a spate of online news stories in 2016 claiming that various celebrities were summoned for jury duty in various towns and cities they don't reside in turned out to be clickbait hoaxes published for no evident purpose other than accumulating social media shares and ad revenue. One stated that pop singer Katy Perry was summoned for jury duty in Lorain, Ohio: Another claimed that actor Johnny Depp was summoned in Columbia, Missouri: Country singer and The Voice star Blake Shelton was supposedly summoned in Bentonville, Arkansas: And so on. The celebrities varied, the locales varied (often there were multiple stories saying the same celebrity was called for jury duty in different places), but the wording of all the stories was basically the same: The web addresses of the sites hosting the articles resembled those of actual news sites — e.g, www.newsdaily10.com, channel18news.com, km8news.com, etc. — but each featured the same disclaimer on its About Us page admitting that the content was bogus: The stories were reminiscent of a previous round of hoaxes in 2016 claiming celebrities were moving to various obscure small towns all across the United States to escape the rat race. (en)
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