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In late April 2015, the fake news outlet World News Daily Report published an article reporting that two Central Intelligence Agency agents were arrested by minutemen at the Mexican border while in possession of massive amounts of cocaine: For unclear reasons, the claim began circulating widely on Facebook in early May 2016, one year after it was originally published. The image used by World News Daily Report dated back to at least 2014, and was unrelated to any CIA-involved incident at the border in 2015. There is no truth to the claim, as is consistently the case with content created by that web site. World News Daily Report publishes nothing but outlandish fabrications alongside unrelated photographs to drive traffic and boost ad revenue via social media shares. Its disclaimer openly states that the site's articles are made up of false information: Previous World News Daily Report hoaxes included claims that an infant was born with stigmata in the Philippines, a lottery winner died after gold-plating his testicles, a 14-year-old virgin was impregnated solely by a flu shot, a slaughterhouse employee killed dozens of coworkers unnoticed for twenty years, a donor heart recipient received an organ from an executed serial killer and went on to carry out a killing spree, a man's genitals were bitten off during an attempted sexual assault of a pit bull, a meth-using babysitter ate a small child while high, a Smithsonian employee was discovered raping a mummy, an overweight man sued Golden Corral because he was ejected for overstaying his welcome, rat meat was sold as chicken wings nationwide before the 2016 Super Bowl, a woman broke a world record by giving birth to 14 children by 14 different fathers, a Nazi sub surfaced in the Great Lakes, a mother sued a tampon company for taking her daughter's virginity, and a 101-year-old Italian woman gave birth to a healthy baby.
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