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On July 3, 2020, the Brown Valley Observer website published an article positing that Ghislaine Maxwell, a longtime associate of deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, tested positive for COVID-19 in the New Hampshire jail where she was held after her arrest on charges of the sexual exploitation of minors: This item was not a factual recounting of real-life events. The article originated with a website that describes its output as being humorous or satirical in nature, as follows: A similar claim about Ghislaine Maxwell circulated concurrently in the form of a purported screenshot of a misdated BBC article. However, no such story appeared on the BBC.com website and the screenshot was obviously fabricated: For background, here is why we sometimes write about satire/humor.
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