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On 3 December 2017, the Patriot Post published a fake news article by Flagg Eagleton, a pseudonym frequently used to publish misinformation on disreputable satire web sites such as The Last Line of Defense, Our Land of the Free, Freedum Junkshun, As American As Apple Pie, and Reagan Was Right, claiming that the Jacksonville Jaguars were the first National Football League team to declare bankruptcy over kneeling thugs: Like the sites listed above, the Patriot Post (which resides at the misspelled URL PotatriotPost.com) is not a genuine news web site; in addition to carrying a satire tag in its footer, the web site also explains in its About page that all of the content on the site is fictional. The web site also defends its own particular brand of satire, insisting that it does not publish fake news but instead a new genre (which could perhaps be called fake fake news): Although the Patriot Post labels its content as fiction, its stories — like many of its ilk — are frequently republished on web sites that carry no such disclaimers. This story, for instance, was presented as a genuine news article with no disclaimer to speak of on the web site Daily Flash News, Viral USA and Right Thing USA, making it less satire and more corrosive disinformation. But regardless of where this story was shared or whether or not it should be classified as fake news, satire, or worse, the claim that the Jacksonville Jaguars filed bankruptcy over kneeling thugs is false. The Jacksonville Jaguars have experienced relatively small crowds during the 2017 season, but the team did not announce that they were filing for bankruptcy.
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