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On 2 September 2016, a screenshot of a tweet purportedly sent out by a CBS reporter claiming that Hillary Clinton would drop out of the presidential race appeared on social media: The image displayed above was picked up by unscrupulous web sites, and was shared with the claim that Chanpong deleted the tweet almost immediately after it was posted (presumably to explain why it could not be found on her timeline): However, this wasn't a tweet posted and then mysteriously deleted by Chanpong; it is actually a fake that was never posted to her account to begin with. Creating a fake tweet is a relatively easy process. Even so, most fraudsters (whether through ignorance or carelessness) simply cannot get all the details right. The biggest giveaway that the tweet here is a hoax is that it contains retweets and favorites. However, Twitter got rid of favorites in November 2015 — nearly a year before this hoax tweet went out — and replaced them with likes. A tweet sent out on 2 September 2016 would have the number of retweets and likes displayed, not the number of favorites:
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