by Benson Agoha | Fake News
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| * Rats packed for sale. (Credit: Urban Image Magazine). |
A fake news site's claim that a large quantity of rat meat was sold as chicken wings before the Super Bowl spread quickly after it was reported by other web sites.
The World News Daily Report claimed that 300,000 pounds of rat meat disguised as chicken wings were sold in the U.S. before the Super Bowl. It prompted a massive twitter storm that is yet to settle.
But the site has been exposed as carrier of fake news, even as online rumours continue travelling and many wonder if they had chicken wings or rat wings before the super bowl.
Today Snopes.com has published a rebuttal saying the claim was without basis saying "As with all of World News Daily Report's articles, the claim had no basis in truth. The article used an unrelated image published to the internet in 2014, itself unrelated to chicken wings or the 2016 Super Bowl."
"World News Daily Report regularly publishes outlandish false claims to encourage social media sharing and traffic to the site; in this instance, the story was clearly concocted to spike traffic ahead of the Super Bowl."
Its disclaimer plainly states:
"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."
The World News Daily Report claimed that 300,000 pounds of rat meat disguised as chicken wings were sold in the U.S. before the Super Bowl. It prompted a massive twitter storm that is yet to settle.
But the site has been exposed as carrier of fake news, even as online rumours continue travelling and many wonder if they had chicken wings or rat wings before the super bowl.
Today Snopes.com has published a rebuttal saying the claim was without basis saying "As with all of World News Daily Report's articles, the claim had no basis in truth. The article used an unrelated image published to the internet in 2014, itself unrelated to chicken wings or the 2016 Super Bowl."
"World News Daily Report regularly publishes outlandish false claims to encourage social media sharing and traffic to the site; in this instance, the story was clearly concocted to spike traffic ahead of the Super Bowl."
Its disclaimer plainly states:
"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."
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