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In June 2015, multiple fake news web sites published items claiming that a Baltimore police officer had shot a two-year-old boy named Malik Gibson after mistaking a pacifier for a gun: Hoaxes of this type often travel from fake news site to fake news site, and they frequently don't feature publication dates to identify the age of the articles. The claim that a Baltimore toddler was shot by a police officer who mistook a pacifier for a gun was introduced following the death of Freddie Gray in April 2015, but it spiked in popularity after the July 2016 shooting deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile.This particular hoax article was run by both TMZWorldNews and Celebtricity, and like all content published by those sites, the report was entirely satirical. Neither of these fake news sites includes a disclaimer notice advising readers about the fictional nature of their content.
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