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tdkl on Jan 9, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Chernobyl’s new sarcophagus

Fake news didn't start in 2016 [1].

> Following the news, global media had a fit and made wild assumptions about the accident. In fact, only 2 men had died when these were published.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/EF8o29L.jpg

PerfectDlite on Jan 9, 2017 [–]

Afaik, those are tabloids which were notorious to invent stories?

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