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In early January 2017, a July 2016 article published by TMZHipHop (formerly CelebtriCity) appeared on social media once again, reporting a man locked his daughter in a cage because she used Snapchat's dog filter excessively: Like its sister sites (TMZWorldStar/TMZUncut/TMZBreaking), TMZHipHop is a fake news source posing as an offshoot of the popular gossip site TMZ. None of the above domains bears a disclaimer that warns readers that the sites' (often salacious or outlandish) content is purely fabricated. Previous falsehoods advanced by TMZHipHop and related pages included claims a cop shot a black toddler after mistaking his pacifier for a gun, a penile implant alerted women to cheating romantic partners, a college student fell into a coma after undertaking a social media semen-drinking challenge, KKK members committed suicide en masse after the introduction of the Harriet Tubman $20 bill, a non-existent study determined 80 percent of black men in Atlanta were gay, and police located a Satanic dungeon under a Chuck E. Cheese (a story that coincidentally resembled the late-2016 Pizzagate conspiracy theory).
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