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On 4 June 2016, the web site Someone's Bones published an article with accompanying photograph reporting that several thousand UCLA students had held a candlelight vigil on campus to honor fallen ISIS soldiers whose lives were cut short by drone strikes or machine gun fire in Syria and Iraq: No such rally or vigil in support of ISIS took place at UCLA, however. This report originated with (and was published by no one other than) Someone's Bones, one of many fake news sites that shamelessly post fabricated stories with outrage-provoking clickbait headlines in order to lure gullible readers into generating advertising revenue for them. In fact, the photograph seen above actually depicts a candlelight ceremony held to honor the memory of UCLA professor William Klug, who had been shot and killed on campus by a disgruntled former student the day before:
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