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In September 2021, a website known for publishing fictitious and inflammatory stories, largely about the supposed wrongdoing of left-leaning political figures, falsely claimed that Chelsea Clinton had been arrested on suspicion of child trafficking. On Sept. 19, RealRawNews.com published a story with the headline Delta Force Arrests Chelsea Clinton, which asserted that: The story was, of course, utter nonsense. RealRawNews.com has a track record of producing similarly fabricated stories, often about fictional U.S. military raids on prominent left-leaning political figures, many of which Snopes has debunked in recent years, including claims that: the U.S. military had arrested Bill Gates; Delta Force had raided President Joe Biden's compound in Ukraine; a military tribunal had convicted Hillary Clinton of murder, and so on. RealRawNews.com bears the following disclaimer, which illustrates why none of its output should be assumed to contain accurate claims: Although the About Us section on the website contains the satire disclaimer, individual articles, including the Chelsea Clinton one, do not, meaning some casual readers could very readily accept its nonsensical claims as accurate. Moreover, the story was re-published or aggregated on other websites, where even curious readers would not have come across any satire disclaimer, and would be even more likely to mistake it for a genuine news story — a common danger of content that is labelled satire at its origins. For background, here is why we sometimes write about satire/humor.
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