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On 16 August 2016 the Newslo web site reported that Indiana governor and GOP vice presidential candidate Mike Pence had once called for a ban on condoms, maintaining their use leads to abortions: The item referenced a genuine controversy pertaining to remarks made by Pence about condoms back in 2002 during the course of a CNN panel discussion. But as with all articles published by Newslo (as well as sister sites sites Religionlo and Politicalo), the piece featured a fact-based introduction before introducing believable untruths. Like all articles on those three fake news sites, the Pence piece included a show facts or hide facts button (though all items displayed by default in hide facts mode, obfuscating subsequent fabrications to new readers): All claims aside from those about Pence's controversial 2002 remarks were embellishments typical of Newslo and its brethren. But readers unfamiliar with the site's tendency to exaggerate topical subjects used Newslo's fabricated quotes as a basis for political images, advancing the idea Pence genuinely said the things attributed to him by the Newslo article (he did not). Newslo, Politicalo, and Religionlo articles are almost always comprised of a paragraph containing true information and a balance of embellishments about that grain of truth. Previously, those sites advanced claims Chris Christie said a female version of Viagra would lead to an uptick lesbianism and voted down a gender pay parity bill for Bible-based reasons, an Alabama politician proposed saliva-based hunger tests for food stamp recipients, Ted Cruz said the death of Antonin Scalia was suspiciously timed, Pat Robertson asserted David Bowie was still alive after his death, and that Mike Pence opined that if abortion was allowed in instances of rape that women would attempt to get raped in order to obtain an abortion.
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