Anti-Immigrant Sites Link To Fake CNN Story Claiming Hispanics Started Wildfires

Posted on: October 26th, 2007
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“At first look, “Separatists Claim Responsibility For California Wildfires” appears to be like any other story on CNN.com. The article claims that California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger confirmed a radical Hispanic organization has taken responsibility for the fires that raged through southern California this week. The article even says there’s photographic proof “of individuals holding Molotov cocktails, then throwing them into dry brush.”

After the initial shock of the report, it then becomes obvious that it’s a hoax. To start with, the site’s URL is www.cnnheadlienews.com (note the headlie instead of headline). CNN’s url is cnn.com and the url for its sister network, Headline News, is

” title=”http://www.cnn.com/HLN/.\”*

” class=”autohyperlink” target=”_blank”>www.cnn.com/HLN/.”*

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