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Friday, July 25, 2014

Fake news site stirs Malaysia, claims Selangor prince converted to Catholicism

Screenshot of the fake news website World News Daily Report. – 25 July, 2014.Screenshot of the fake news website World News Daily Report. – 25 July, 2014.
Fake news website World News Daily Report stirred Malaysian online forums and some local sites today when it claimed that Selangor crown prince Tengku Amir Shah had converted to Catholicism last week.
Religion is a sensitive issue in Malaysia where Islam is the official religion and the country's majority Malays and the nine royal houses are all Muslims.
But the website is a known as a fake news site and carries outrageous headlines such as “Bengali man pregnant with twins” and “Man steals 32 tonnes of bacon” – some of which get routinely picked up by other websites.
“The crown prince of the state of Selangor in Malaysia, has relinquished all his possessions and a chance to succeed to the prestigious throne of Selangor to follow his heart and marry Spanish top model and superstar Cristina Gomez, a 16 year old who was propelled to stardom this year when she was noticed on national television in the crowd of a highly anticipated football match.”
An online check showed there was no such Spanish top model named Cristina Gomez.
It also got Tengku Amir Shah's age wrong, saying he was 21. The crown prince is 23.
The fake report claimed that “the baptism of the former follower of Islam at Santa Maria Cathedral this week in Braga, Portugal, has brought much criticism on the former heir to the Selangor throne by the world Muslim community at large."
It also said, “The lovers are to be wed this month in San Marco Cathedral in romantic Venice and have not revealed where they are to spend their honeymoon.”
In the About Us section of the website, World News Daily says it is "an American Jewish Zionist newspaper based in Tel Aviv and dedicated to covering biblical archeology news and other mysteries around the globe.
"Our news team is composed of award-winning Christian, Muslim and Jewish journalists, retired Mossad agents and veterans of the Israeli Armed Forces.
"We are based in Tel Aviv since 1988 where are published more then 200,000 copies of our Daily Report paper edition everyday.
"Thank you for your interest in our newspaper and long live Israël!" it said in a four-paragraph description.
Malaysia does not have diplomatic relations with Israel, which is being widely criticised now for its continued shelling of the Gaza Strip that has led to some 700 deaths in the past few weeks.
The website is dated April 25, 2014 and has a disclaimer that says, "World News Daily Report is a news and political satire web publication, which may or may not use real names, often in semi-real or mostly fictitious ways.
"All news articles contained within worldnewsdailyreport.com are fiction, and presumably fake news. Any resemblance to the truth is purely coincidental, except for all references to politicians and/or celebrities, in which case they are based on real people, but still based almost entirely in fiction," it added.
- TMI

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