A report that’s going viral is saying the Kenyan government has released President Obama’s “real birth certificate,” but it’s fake.
The article was published on AmericanNews.com, which appears to publish mostly bogus articles.
However, the same article was republished from a satire website, World News Daily Report, earlier this year.
“According to reports, the Office of the Principal Register of the Nyanza Province in Kenya has just released 11 documents concerning Barack Obama’s birth and early childhood in the country. The papers have been requested by Americans for years, but the Kenyan Supreme Court finally just ordered authorities to release the documents based on a law on ‘access to information,’” it says.
World News Daily Report has a disclaimer, which says that it posts only satirical and fake news pieces, and it shouldn’t be taken seriously.
“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,” the disclaimer says.
Snopes.com also debunked the fake report, saying: “Soon afterwards links and excerpts referencing this item were being circulated via social media, with many of those who encountered it mistaking it for a genuine news article. However, that article was just another spoof from World News Daily Report, a tabloid-like web site whose stock in trade is publishing fantastically fictional stories such as “200 Million Year Old Dinosaur Egg Hatches in Berlin Museum and “Miner Found Alive After 17 Years Underground.”
There’s been no credible media reports saying the Kenyan government released anything on Obama’s birth certificate in recent days.
AmericanNews.com does not have a disclaimer, but it appears to publish bogus political news stories.
(via Epoch Times)
