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2024-06-02 15:05:48 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: BC8360C16E55B0FB0E8E4569259A59D10A0DBE62F155FA811D1EE8562C44A4D1
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This is from Underground News Report, a satire website: https://web.archive.org/web/20170225174004/http://undergroundnewsreport.com/the-truth/wikileaks-obama-ran-pedophile-ring-out-of-whitehouse/ The creator of this website has confirmed in interview it was satire. He explains he wrote such headlines and articles because he was "curious about how easily people could be fooled" https://www.politifact.com/article/2017/mar/09/fake-news-website-starts-joke-gains-1-million-view/
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