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  • 2017-11-01 (xsd:date)
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  • Did a Young Girl Disconnect her Grandfather's Life Support to Plug in her Phone’s Charger? (en)
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  • Repeating a lie doesn't make it true, even if you are aggregating it on numerous web sites. In October 2017, dozens of web sites ran with a fictitious story claiming that a young girl had disconnected her grandfather's life support in order to charge her phone: Nearly verbatim copies of this story were published web sites such as Ideas Fun, Rachfeed, The Alternative Mind, Elite Readers, and BuzzFlare. It was even picked up and reproduced by the Indonesian outlet Tribunnews.com. Despite the widespread nature of this story, the event described is purely a work of fiction. This story was originally published on the satire web site 8shit.net on 7 October 2017. That web site states in a legal notice that all of its content (except where noted) should be considered fictional: Although the recent round of rumors concerning Ally Louia, her need for an outlet, and her grandpa's near death experience, originated with the satire web site 8Shit.net, this premise, as well as the featured image, date back to a 2015 Spanish-language article that was published on the satirical web site El Mundo Today. That version featured another name (Adrián Hinojo) in the place of Ally Louia. El Mundo Today carries a disclaimer labeling its content as fiction: The fictional El Mundo report may have been based on an even older urban legend which claimed that a janitor killed several people at a hospital in South Africa after he unplugged life support systems to power their floor polisher. (en)
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