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  • 2016-09-09 (xsd:date)
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  • Brock Turner’s Father: 'The Girl Got No Punishment for Being a Slut' (en)
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  • On 9 June 2016, during an ongoing controversy involving Brock Turner's having received a light sentence in a sexual assault case, the Newslo web site reported that Turner's father had issued unkind words towards his son's victim: The article wasn't widely circulated until Turner was released from jail (after serving only three months) in early September 2016. Its first paragraph referenced a letter written by Turner's father that proved controversial during the trial, holding that Brock's sentence was a steep price to pay for 20 minutes of action out of his 20 plus years of life. But as with all articles published by Newslo (as well as related sites sites Religionlo and Politicalo), the item used a factual introduction before introducing believable untruths. All articles on those three fake news sites featured a show facts or hide facts button (though all items displayed by default in hide facts mode, obfuscating subsequent fabrications to new readers): Although Turner's father did write a letter in mid-2016 which included the steep price line, he did not say [b]eing a slut isn’t a crime yet, even though I think it should be, [t]ricking young, perspective athletes who are the future of this country by staging rape should be punishable by law, or that girl ought to be given an Academy Award for her performance, seriously. Newslo, Politicalo, and Religionlo articles almost always follow a format comprised of one paragraph containing true information and a balance of embellishments upon the truthful fraction. Previously, those sites spread falsehoods holding Chris Christie said a female version of Viagra would lead to increased lesbianism and voted down a gender pay parity bill for religious reasons, an Alabama politician proposed saliva-based hunger tests for food stamp recipients, Ted Cruz said the death of Antonin Scalia was suspiciously timed, Pat Robertson stated David Bowie was still alive after his death, and Mike Pence opined that if abortion was allowed in instances of rape that women would attempt to get raped in order to obtain an abortion. As with those articles, the item took Turner's father's letter and appended a balance of falsified statements. (en)
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