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In October 2016 fake news sites were making hay publishing fabricated articles that exploited current news coverage of killer clown sightings across the United States, and the Global Sun fake news site scored big with a fictional news report about weapons-wielding clowns from the U.S. invading Canada and murdering 23 victims. The site followed up that report with an equally fake story about Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau's responding to the non-existent Canadian killer clown crisis by announcing a new law that would allow for Any person dressed in a clown costume in public to be arrested and fined $10,000: In this made-up article, Trudeau exhibited great restraint by not noting that the task of rounding up clowns in Canada should be greatly simplified because they are usually all gathered around a single location in Ottawa:
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