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False rumors about McDonald's restaurants using worms as filler in their hamburgers and true reports of some retail chains being vended food products tainted with horse meat due to problems with supplies have been the basis a wild (but apparently believable) claims that an Oklahoma City McDonald's outlet was caught with horse meat and human meat in their freezers. Such claims originated with a 27 March 2014 article published by the Huzlers web site: However, that McDonald's article was just a spoof from the Huzlers web site, which offers users the ability to Create your own news prank and trick your friends by sharing it and has a history of publishing fabricated news stories. The Huzlers site also carries a disclaimer on its pages noting that Huzlers.com is a combination of real shocking news and satire news to keep its visitors in a state of disbelief and is listed in our article about 5 Fake News Sites to Avoid Sharing. Unfortunately, multiple other websites have reproduced this same article without referencing its source or offering any indication that it originated as satire/humor, leaving many readers with the impression that it was a genuine news article. In truth, no part of the McDonald's operation has been cited for having bought, sold, processed, or used either horse meat or human meat (the latter of which cannot legally be vended in the U.S.) for food purposes.
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