Embarrassing: Standard Digital Publishes A Fake Story

A writer from Standard Digital yesterday found himself in an awkward position after he syndicated a story from an unreliable source.

Well not exactly unreliable, but more of satirical source. The writer took a story from the National Reporter a famed satirical site and passed on the fake news that Facebook would be charging its users for use of the site. It was said that Facebook users would now be expected to pay 300 Shillings per month for Facebook use and if you could not afford you just had to post the words, ‘I AM POOR FACEBOOK PLEASE WAIVE MY MONTHLY FEE’. Then add the hashtag #FacebookMonthlyFee. And Facebook would not charge you .

Unfortunately the writer seemed not to have checked the authenticity of the site which even had a disclaimer earlier on the page that stated “National 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 National Report are fiction, and presumably fake news. “

On realizing his mistake, the writer has since pulled down the article but we have the screen shots

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