People will do anything to get attention on the internet even if it does sometimes cost them their job. I found this article that said when Donald Trump was running for president, Pope Francis spoke out and said that he endorsed Trump. Within the next few days, there were almost a million engagements on Facebook where people were commenting on it. Quickly after the news got out Pope Francis spoke out and said fake news is a "'sickness.'" This stunt proves how quickly false news can get spread and how quickly people believe it not knowing where it came from. Luckily we have the technology now to delete whole websites, which is what happened with this website.
Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2016/12/30/read-all-about-it-the-biggest-fake-news-stories-of-2016.html
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