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In July 2015, a series of photographs purportedly showing a fallen angel who dropped from the skies above London began circulating online: While some web sites correctly noted that the photographs depicted an art installation, others decided to use the images to create a fake news story about a real fallen angel. The web site Trending Stylist, for example, claimed that the photographs depicted an angel captured in Texas: Zon News shared a nearly identical story that simply changed the setting to London: The truth is that this fallen angel is a hyper-realistic sculpture made from fiber-reinforced polymer and silica gel created by Beijing artists Sun Yuan and Peng Yu in 2008:
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