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Name Domain Status Notes Sources American News americannews.com Published a false story claiming actor Denzel Washington endorsed Donald Trump for president. The fictional headline led to thousands of people sharing it on Facebook, a prominent example of fake news spreading on the social network prior to the 2016 presidential election.
Also used as a fake name for former Yugoslavia by Lawrence Durrell in some of his Antrobus short stories. W. Warnerstock: a small country between France and Germany in the film Wakko's Wish; Weselton: a duchy in Frozen, neighbour of Arendelle. Wolfkrone: a small kingdom in the Soulcalibur video game series.
This is a list of pen names used by notable authors of written work. A pen name or nom de plume is a pseudonym adopted by an author.A pen name may be used to make the author' name more distinctive, to disguise the author's gender, to distance the author from their other works, to protect the author from retribution for their writings, to combine more than one author into a single author, or ...
Wikipedia:Random. On Wikipedia and other sites running on MediaWiki, Special:Random can be used to access a random article in the main namespace; this feature is useful as a tool to generate a random article. Depending on your browser, it's also possible to load a random page using a keyboard shortcut (in Firefox, Edge, and Chrome Alt-Shift + X ).
Placeholder names for people include: Иван ( Ivan ), Драган ( Dragan) and Петкан ( Petkan ); used in this order. Ivan is the most common Bulgarian name, while the other two are quite old-fashioned. Петър Петров ( Petar Petrov) is most commonly an ordinary person with no interesting qualities.
These sites are not to be confused with fake news websites, which deliberately publish hoaxes in an attempt to profit from gullible readers. [2] [3] News satire is a type of parody presented in a format typical of mainstream journalism , and called a satire because of its content.
MediaFetcher.com is a fake news website generator. It has various templates for creating false articles about celebrities of a user's choice. Often users miss the disclaimer at the bottom of the page, before re-sharing. The website has prompted many readers to speculate about the deaths of various celebrities.
A pseudonym is a name adopted by a person for a particular purpose, which differs from their true name. A pseudonym may be used by social activists or politicians for political purposes or by others for religious purposes. It may be a soldier's nom de guerre or an author's nom de plume.