Examples of Fake News – Fact Check: How to decipher online …

These are two examples of satirical and fake news sites that deliver news with distorted or false information, biased viewpoints and fabricated facts:

To confuse and add to the misleading of readers, World News Daily Report mixes some true stories with their fake ones. Their disclaimer starts with a large headline reading "NEWS YOU CAN TRUST," however, when you scroll to the bottom of the page, it reads:

WNDRshall not be responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by website users or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in this website or by any technical or human error which may occur. WNDR assumes however all responsibility for thesatiricalnature of its articles and for the fictional nature oftheir content. All characters appearing in the articlesin this website even those based on real people areentirely fictionalandany resemblance between them and any persons, living, dead, or undead is purelya miracle. (http://worldnewsdailyreport.com/disclaimer_/)

https://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/

Your help is needed to save the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus from extinction! Visit the official site to learn more about this elusive species, what you can do help, and sharesitghingsofthis temperate rainforestcephalopods.

It is pretty obvious that this clever and entertaining website is fake. It is not intended to be misleading, but asatirical site for a fictional animal that gained a surprise following.

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