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On 25 December 2017, a mysterious web site bearing a Soviet Union domain name (chronicle.su) published an article which appeared to report that WikiLeaks had released a large set of so-called Deep State Files, containing some of the Central Intelligence Agency's most classified secrets: The hashtag #DeepStateFiles quickly spread on Twitter, referencing a popular conspiracy theory about a covert Illuminati-like shadow government known collectively in some circles as the Deep State: However, the claim could only be traced back to a single source (Chronicle.su); the official WikiLeaks account tweeted nothing about this purported major release. A phony account (with a handle misspelling WikiLeaks as wikileiks) shared the claim, but its Twitter bio labeled it a parody: Chronicle.su's About page didn't state the site was fake news per se, but it provides every indication that its content was purely for entertainment purposes: A sidebar on the site boasts a number of hoaxes and utter fictions, including Papa John’s Pizza announces Watermelon Pizza, Researchers close to discovering ‘miracle’ new life-destroying opiate, and Trump, Netanyahu: Israel set to become 51st state.
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