Introduction by the Blog Author
Someone I’ve never met cut and paste a story for Facebook about a Nazi submarine found at the bottom ofLake
Ontario and then brought
to the surface. I thought the story
might be good enough to put in this blog, but there was no link for it on
Facebook to the original news coverage.
So I did a word search and found that the story and accompanying picture
came from the World News Daily Report.
There was a “Snopes” report about this that is included immediately
below.
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World News Daily Report regularly publishes wild and sensational false claims to drive social media share-based traffic to its site. Its disclaimer plainly states that the site's articles are fictional:
Someone I’ve never met cut and paste a story for Facebook about a Nazi submarine found at the bottom of
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World News Daily Report regularly publishes wild and sensational false claims to drive social media share-based traffic to its site. Its disclaimer plainly states that the site's articles are fictional:
WNDR assumes however all responsibility for
the satirical nature of its articles and for the fictional nature
of their content. All characters appearing in the articles in this
website — even those based on real people — are entirely
fictional and any resemblance between them and any persons, living,
dead, or undead is purely a miracle.
Previous World
News Daily Report hoaxes included claims a baby in the Philippines was
born with stigmata, a lottery winner died after gold-plating his testicles, a
14-year-old virgin was impregnated by a flu shot, a slaughterhouse employee
murdering dozens of coworkers over a span of twenty years unnoticed, a donor
heart recipient who went on a killing spree after receiving an organ from
an executed serial killer, a man's whose genitals were bitten
off during the attempted sexual assault of a pit bull, a meth-using babysitter
who ate a toddler, a Smithsonian employee caught "raping" a
mummy, an overweight man's suing Golden Corral because he was ejected for
staying too long, rat meat sold nationwide as chicken wings before the 2016
Super Bowl, and a woman's setting a world record by giving birth to 14 children
by 14 different men.
http://www.snopes.com/nazi-sub-found-in-great-lakes/
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