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In March 2016, Bumble Bee Foods announced a pre-emptive recall of some of their canned tuna products due to an issue with the sterilization process at a co-pack facility, even though no problems had been reported in association with the products: Over three years earlier, back in October 2012, a tragic incident at a Bumble Bee Foods processing facility had resulted in the death of a worker named José Melena, who was killed after being accidentally locked in a large industrial oven: This death did not result in any product contamination, nor did it have anything to do with the voluntary recall issued by Bumble Bee Foods over three years later. But the fake news sites News 4 KTLA and The Racket Report published misleading articles shortly after the recall announcement that falsely linked the two events, reproducing (genuine) three-year-old news reports of Melena's death under the fabricated clickbait headline Massive Bumble Bee Recall After 2 Employees Admit Cooking a Man and Mixing Him with a Batch of Tuna: It is true that two Bumble Bee employees were charged with violating safety regulations in Melena's death back in 2012, but those employees did not mix [his remains] with a batch of tuna, nor were their actions in any way related to the March 2016 recall. The Racket Report's disclaimer notes that the site's articles should not be mistaken for factual news items: In early 2017, an iteration of the remains in tuna fake news item (copied and reposted by a scraper tips site in late 2016) circulated. However, its details remained false and the appended image was identical to the one used in the original Racket Report fabrication.
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