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On 21 February 2016, Newslo published an article reporting that Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio said he is against abortion even if God were to intentionally infect a baby in the womb with the Zika virus: The quoted material in the first paragraph was actually legitimate, which caused further confusion. It came from Rubio's 7 February 2016 appearance on This Week with George Stephanopoulos, during which he discussed his opposition to abortion: However, that was the only paragraph that wasn't embellished, as indicated by Newslo itself. Articles on the self-labeled hybrid news site Newslo (and related sites Religionlo and Politicalo) use controversial news items into which they build fabrications that range from subtle to outrageous. Newslo and its sister sites' pages display an interactive feature enabling readers to Show Facts or Hide Facts: All content published by Newslo, Politicalo, and Religionlo is displayed by default in Hide Facts mode, which masks the clear embellishments from site visitors. In addition to the Show Facts/Hide Facts feature, Newslo's disclaimer stated: Previous Newslo, Religionlo, and Politicalo articles that confused social media users included items claiming that Marco Rubio said women should be placed in custody if it was suspected they were considering an abortion, that Pat Robertson said gay people should wear specific colors by which heterosexual people could easily identify them, that Pastor John Piper decreed bikini waxes a sin in the eyes of God, that David Bowie was alive but held hostage by operatives of Satan, that Ted Cruz believed God would not have allowed Antonin Scalia to die at a time that was potentially not politically expedient, and that a Republican lawmaker proposed saliva-based hunger tests for food stamp recipients.
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