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On 7 January 2019, an article posted on the Laughing in Disbelief blog reported that Vice President Mike Pence had been kicked out of Iceland due to a new law aimed at protecting the general population from religious fanatics: This was not a genuine news report, and the vice president was not given the boot from Iceland. Laughing in Disbelief is a satirical blog published as part of the Patheos platform on religion and spirituality. The article was filed under a Satire tag, and readers who clicked on the link in the first sentence of the article were redirected to a page explaining that all content on Laughing in Disbelief is satire: In addition to the disclaimers, the authors of Laughing in Disbelief frequently drop hints intheir articles to alert readers about the satirical nature of the content. In this case, the author identified the president of Iceland as Lars Bork (but Guðni Th. Jóhannesson is the real president of Iceland).
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