Fake NYT Article Circulated Showing Warren Endorsing Sanders

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaks to a conference as House and Senate negotiators try to resolve competing versions of a rewrite to the No Child Left Behind education law, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesda... Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaks to a conference as House and Senate negotiators try to resolve competing versions of a rewrite to the No Child Left Behind education law, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2015. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) MORE LESS
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A website pretending to be The New York Times published an article Monday alleging that Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) had endorsed her colleague Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) for President instead of Hillary Clinton.

The headline read, “Warren Endorses Sanders, Breaking With Colleagues,” according to a report from The Times.

“An article circulating on social media tonight that is made to resemble a New York Times story and says Elizabeth Warren endorsed Bernie Sanders is a fake and has no connection to The Times,” Times deputy executive editor Matthew Purdy said in the report.

The fake article had quotes from Warren, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and actress and writer Lena Dunham.

The Times said it was created with Clone Zone, which allows users to “clone” a website already in existing.

Warren has made no endorsement in the 2016 presidential campaign, but joined female senators in 2013 urging Clinton to run for president.

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  1. She won’t issue an endorsement until after MA. And probably won’t until after Hillary has it sewn up. She doesn’t have to and why take any risk at all if you don’t have to?

  2. I saw the fake story last night, and was amazed at how authentic it looked. I even clicked on a couple of other story links on the page and went to actual NYT stories.

    Someone on another site said that the hoaxer took a Chris Christie story as a template, scrubbed the text, and inserted the “story.” Apparently there was a clue at the bottom – a one-line reference to the original Christie story.

    The story also included a quote from “disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner,” who is married to a top Hillary aide.

  3. I assume there’s some way to maynbe track down who created this forgery?

    Meanwhile, so many American being so gullible, how many people fell for this?

  4. “…a website already in existing.”

    What is that you’re saying?

  5. Ratfucking at its finest. I smell the GOP.

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