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On 21 January 2016 the website Action News 3 published an article titled George Zimmerman Found DEAD Months After Tweeting Pics Of Trayvon Martin's Dead Body, claiming: The article concluded: On 27 September 2015, Zimmerman indeed made headlines when he re-tweeted a photograph of the lifeless body of Trayvon Martin. Zimmerman shot and killed the teen in Sanford, Florida in February 2012, but was acquitted in July 2013 of a second-degree murder charge related to the shooting: Zimmerman's Twitter account was subsequently suspended, for reasons unrelated to the September 2015 controversy. While the portion about Zimmerman's social media activity was accurate, the claim that someone murdered him in January 2016 was not. Like many fake news web sites, Action News 3 bore no disclaimer informing readers that its content was fabricated, and featured many visual elements suggesting it was a legitimate local news web site.
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