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04-15-2017, 07:46 PM
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https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/01/u...rump.html?_r=0
" When it comes to animals, the Trump family is better known for hunting them. Mr. Trump’s two eldest sons have been criticized for a safari they took in Zimbabwe in 2011, when they posed for pictures next to a large water buffalo and other creatures they had shot for sport."
" Mr. Trump has no pets, according to his campaign. However, a curious hoax website called MediaMass has for years been pumping out the fiction that “Donald Trump’s adored Labrador retriever ‘Spinee’ has undergone a risky surgery on Wednesday and is luckily beginning the slow process of recovery.”
People been sending Mr. Trump heartfelt tweets wishing Spinee a speedy recovery since at least 2013.
But wait, there’s more: MediaMass — a site that says its goal is “media criticism through satire” — has been spreading the exact same Spinee rumor about thousands of celebrities and public figures, including Mrs. Clinton. The identical article has been written about Stephen King, Miley Cyrus, Denzel Washington and Steve Martin, to name a few.
An email to MediaMass, which seems to be based in China, went unanswered, perhaps not surprisingly.
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