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In November 2015, a number of fake news sites, including Now8News, began sharing articles claiming a lottery winner had died after attempting to gold-plate his testicles: A 19 November 2015 version that appeared on the web site Viral Covert relocated the hapless lottery winner's residence to Canada: Both versions featured the same image of a doctor purportedly involved with the fatal incident: Now8News identified the physician depicted as Dr. William Rife at Emory University Hospital, while Viral Covert claimed the photograph was that of Dr Ian Joseffson of the Alberta Community Hospital: All of this was just more fake news, however. An image search revealed that the photograph of the doctor was swiped from a 12 May 2012 article about a health scare in Tulsa, in which the physician was correctly identified ias Dr. Michael Smith [of] St. John Health System ER. Similarly, the purported testicle-gilding lottery winner was in fact Polish rapper Popek:
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