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LITERAL FAKE NEWS: Reuters Pulls Article After Falling For Fake Website

Ashe Schow

Reuters was forced to retract an article published Wednesday morning after the source for the information turned out to be a fake news website.

Early Wednesday morning, Reuters published an article claiming Saudi Arabia’s consul in Istanbul was fired and was being investigated. Reuters claimed the source for this information was the Saudi online newspaper Sabq.

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