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On 5 December 2018, the World News Daily Report (WNDR) website published an article reporting that a Boston man had filed a lawsuit against household appliance manufacturer Dyson Ltd. after allegedly being partially emasculated by a Dyson vacuum cleaner: Given the prominence of the defendant and the amount of damages sought, one would have expected the incident to be reported in mainstream news venues -- even nationally -- but it was not. We were unable to locate a court filing or any other evidence to prove that such a lawsuit was actually filed. Moreover, the photograph used to illustrate the article (purportedly showing the plaintiff in court) appears to have been lifted from a 2014 BuzzFeed report about an entirely different case involving charges of second-degree murder and manslaughter. The sole source of the vacuum emasculation story, World News Daily Report, is a notorious purveyor of junk news under the guise of satire. A disclaimer on the website reads:
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