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The man behind one of America's biggest 'fake news' websites is a former BBC worker from London whose mother writes many of his stories. Sean Adl-Tabatabai, 35, runs YourNewsWire.com, the source of scores of dubious news stories, including claims that the Queen had threatened to abdicate if the UK voted against Brexit.
The website disguises itself as a local television outlet. It has also been known to mix real news along with its fake news in an attempt to circumvent Facebook's crackdown on them. Republished a hoax about worldwide blackout. NewzMagazine.com NewzMagazine.com Per PolitiFact. Part of an online scam network. NY Evening News
Ellinikahoaxes.gr: Greek fact-checking website launched in 2013. Debunks hoaxes, urban legends, fake news, internet scams and other stories of questionable origin. [115] Greece Fact Check: independent Greek fact-checking website launched in February 2017 specializing in pseudoscience and medical frauds. [116] [117]
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Many popular fake news websites like ABCnews.com.co attempted to impersonate a legitimate U.S. news publication, relying on readers not actually checking the address they typed or clicked on. They exploited common misspellings, slight misphrasings and abuse of top-level domains such as .com.co as opposed to .com.
Thousands battle Western wildfires as smoke puts millions under air quality alerts. Weather. NBC Universal. California's Park Fire tops 350,000 acres, destroying 134 structures. Advertisement.
A U.S. Air Force pilot safely ejected from his F-16 fighter jet before it crashed into the sea off South Korea on Wednesday, U.S. military officials said.
Examples include the diamond hoax of 1872 and the Bre-X gold fraud of the mid-1990s. This trick was featured in the HBO series Deadwood, when Al Swearengen and E. B. Farnum trick Brom Garret into believing gold is to be found on the claim Swearengen intends to sell him. This con was also featured in Sneaky Pete.