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On 27 October 2014, the National Report web site published an article reporting that the United States government was enacting a new minimum hunting age of twenty-one: The National Report article was presented like an authentic news story: It used a fabricated quote from U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service spokesman Gregory Pearson (who is not a real person) and cited a petition from the NRA (which does not exist). But since the writing resembled a professional news piece, many readers believed that it was true, and within a few days of its publication thousands of people had shared it on Facebook. But none of this was true, as the National Report is a fake news site. Their disclaimer page states that they are political satire web publication. The minimum hunting age in the United States is currently decided by individual states, not set by federal law. In Idaho, for instance, children between the ages of 10 and 17 may get a hunting licence after they pass a hunter education course. Alaska does not require a license for a hunter under the age of 15. On 9 September 2016, another fake news purveyor, Associated Media Coverage, got into the minimum hunting age game, reporting that under a new law nobody in the U.S. under the age of 18 would be permitted to hunt: That story, too, was fake, and not even original.
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