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On 27 January 2016, Newslo published an article about the #OscarsSoWhite controversy, claiming that blogger Bristol Palin said that Oscar nominations excluded people of color because all black people look alike: The material in the first paragraph referenced an actual post on Bristol Palin's Patheos blog (titled Rappers Agree with Stacey Dash). Palin wrote: The fact that the first part was real led readers to believe that the subsequent content was also legitimate. However, the first paragraph of the Newslo article was the only portion that wasn't fabricated. Articles on the self-styled hybrid news site Newslo (and related sites Religionlo and Politicalo) take controversial news items and then add attention-grabbing embellishments. Newslo and related sites' pages maintain an interactive feature allowing readers to Show Facts or Hide Facts: All Newslo, Politicalo, and Religionlo articles are by default rendered in Hide Facts mode, concealing the highlighted fabrications from readers. In addition to the Show Facts/Hide Facts feature, Newslo's disclaimer admitted: Previous Newslo, Religionlo, and Politicalo articles that prompted similar social media confusion included items claiming Marco Rubio said women should be placed in custody if it was suspected they were considering an abortion (and that Zika was a punishment from God), Pat Robertson said gay people should wear specific colors by which heterosexual people could visually identify them, Pastor John Piper decreed bikini waxes a sin in the eyes of God, David Bowie was alive but held hostage by operatives of Satan, Ted Cruz said God would not have allowed Antonin Scalia to die at a time that was potentially not politically dicey, and a Republican lawmaker proposed saliva-based hunger tests for food stamp recipients.
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