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The stories — all of which happened to be articles from the Conservative Daily Post — were mostly untrue, a lawsuit says. But they apparently seemed plausible to their target audience of conservative readers, who widely shared many of the stories Hunter posted.
Snopes and PolitiFact, the rumor-busting websites, have debunked a few of the site’s claims that have attracted a massive number of readers.
One phony story claimed that a university forced students to wear hijabs. PolitiFact said the evidence for another story, about an underground Clinton sex network, was “thin.”
Hunter, it turns out, is a real person — though not the person her Facebook avatar led thousands to believe she was, according to a lawsuit filed on behalf of the real Laura Hunter.
The suit, filed in district court in Nevada’s Clark County, claims that the news site misappropriated Hunter’s name to transform her into “a spokesperson for a radical right-wing website that peddles fake news.”
The stories — all of which happened to be articles from the Conservative Daily Post — were mostly untrue, a lawsuit says. But they apparently seemed plausible to their target audience of conservative readers, who widely shared many of the stories Hunter posted.
Snopes and PolitiFact, the rumor-busting websites, have debunked a few of the site’s claims that have attracted a massive number of readers.
One phony story claimed that a university forced students to wear hijabs. PolitiFact said the evidence for another story, about an underground Clinton sex network, was “thin.”
Hunter, it turns out, is a real person — though not the person her Facebook avatar led thousands to believe she was, according to a lawsuit filed on behalf of the real Laura Hunter.
The suit, filed in district court in Nevada’s Clark County, claims that the news site misappropriated Hunter’s name to transform her into “a spokesperson for a radical right-wing website that peddles fake news.”
