The job of being a fake news reporter has a lot in common with legitimate journalism, too.
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As most of you know The Onion is a satirical, fake news source that prints often-hilarious fake news reports.
Three texts with fake news alerts were sent via the broadcaster's SMS service.
They posted a fake news story reporting that the late rappers Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls had been hiding out in New Zealand.
The video, which features BBC broadcaster Richard Bacon, shows the dancers interrupting a fake news report before forming a giant snowflake by lying on the ground.
"We'd like to inform our subscribers that al-Jazeera SMS service has been compromised by hackers who have sent fake news, " the TV channel said in a tweet.
Last year, the Federal Trade Commission went after websites publishing fake news stories about the supposed health benefits of acai, many of them quoting experts like Oz, that were really fronts for supplement sellers.
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Unsurprisingly, drug companies around the world are fearful that their brand will be shunned if news of a fake gets out.
More harm done, I think, to AP and other news outlets who ran with the fake story.
The most famous is the News of the World's own "fake sheikh", Mazher Mahmood, its investigations editor.
Finally, the Beijing News tells of how Ms Zhang in Beijing was ridiculed after her fake pregnancy belly slid off while trying to squeeze onto a bus.
In recognition of the news of Mr Jobs' medical leave, the creator of the spoof Fake Steve Jobs blog has decided to shut it down for the time being.
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