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Back in July 2015, the fake news web site Newswatch33 published an article titled NASA Confirms Earth Will Experience 15 Days of Complete Darkness in November 2015, reporting that: This bit of fake news was lifted from an older (debunked) viral rumor that had already been around the online block several times before and has long since become an evergreen online hoax — a jape that is typically resurrected a few times a year by dubious web sites that simply update the time span for the alleged period of darkness and send it winging around the Internet again. While Charles Bolden is a real NASA official, he issued no report or announcement about 15 days of darkness. Moreover, Newswatch33 web site was not a legitimate news outlet, but a fake news site that began darkening the doorstep of social media networks shortly after the nearly identical NewsWatch28 fake news site shut down in mid-2015.
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