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  • 2016-07-06 (xsd:date)
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  • Omar Mateen’s Final Text to Wife Released: I’m Gay, That’s Why I’m Doing This. (en)
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  • In July 2016, a fake news web site played on rumors that Omar Mateen, who killed 49 people in a mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, committed the horrendous crime (at least in part) because was himself gay. In a completely fabricated article, that site reported the supposed final text message Mateen sent out before he was shot by police: There was no truth to the story, which originated with a malware site that illegally appropriates the trademarks of a legitimate news organization (ABC News) and publishes fictitious clickbait stories to lure readers to the site and generate revenue. However, the popular Spanish newspaper El Mundo was fooled by the fake item and ran it as a (since-removed) straight news item: The mistake caused the same item to be aggregated by other Spanish-language news outlets, including Uruguay's El Pais, Peru's El Comerico, Paraguay.com, and Ecuador's Expreso: (en)
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