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schema:text	On 2 May 2016, Facebook users began sharing links to what looked like legitimate news sites reporting that discount chain Big Lots was shuttering all locations. Readers who clicked through to the link were first greeted with the following "report": Big lots spokesman says closing means employees will have no job in one month . However, the brief "news report" was quickly replaced with the following image: The web site's sidebar was populated with obvious pranks of a similar sort concocted for social media popularity: The Big Lots headline and story was fabricated using Journific, one of several fake news generator sites whose sole purpose is to allow social media users to create shocking, fake headlines to prank their Facebook friends. Often, those user-generated pranks escaped their intended audiences and spread in the wild on social media. Typical pranks of that nature involved "news" that popular chain stores or restaurants were closing, but in March 2016 several similar sites started cascades of localized false rumors involving celebrities moving to (or experiencing flat tires in) small towns. Just prior to the Big Lots hoax, Journific spread a similar false claim involving the purported closure of amusement park Kings Island.
schema:mentions	Big Lots dbpedia:Kings_Island Amusement park Fake news Social media Facebook
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schema:author	snopescom
schema:datePublished	2016-05-11 (xsd:date)
schema:inLanguage	English
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