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  • 2016-10-03 (xsd:date)
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  • Was a Man Dressed as a Clown Shot in Fort Wayne? (en)
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  • On 30 September 2016, the web site WaneTV.Wordpress.com published an reporting that a man wearing a clown costume was in critical condition after being shot in Fort Wayne, Indiana: There is no truth to the above-displayed story, which was just a fabrication playing on a recent spate of reported clown sightings across the United States. WaneTV.Wordpress.com is a fake news site and not an official news organization, nor is it associated with Wane TV, a legitimate news outlet that serves the Fort Wayne area in Indiana. The real Wane TV is located at Wane.com, not WaneTV.wordpress.com. Fake news sites frequently imitate real online news outlets in an attempt to fool readers. The fake WaneTV.Wordpress.com managed to fool enough readers that the Fort Wayne Police Department issued a statement on the matter: A few days later, dubious web site Empire Herald published an almost identical story, changing only the location, the names, and a few descriptors: Empire Herald in particular does not publish any factual stories, and few original ones, preferring (as it does here) to recycle satirical clickbait pieces that have already appeared elsewhere. The photograph is genuine, however. It was lifted from a 2015 news story out of Chimaltenango, Guatemala, in which a man shot and killed a 34-year-old man and a 14-year-old boy who were working as clowns at a Mother's Day event. (en)
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