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  2. List of fake news websites - Wikipedia

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    The man behind one of America's biggest 'fake news' websites is a former BBC worker from London whose mother writes many of his stories. Sean Adl-Tabatabai, 35, runs YourNewsWire.com, the source of scores of dubious news stories, including claims that the Queen had threatened to abdicate if the UK voted against Brexit.

  3. List of pseudonyms - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. List of pen names - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Placeholder name - Wikipedia

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    Placeholder name. Placeholder name on a website. Placeholder names are intentionally overly generic and ambiguous terms referring to things, places, or people, the names of which or of whom do not actually exist; are temporarily forgotten, or are unimportant; or in order to avoid stigmatization, or because they are unknowable or unpredictable ...

  6. List of placeholder names by language - Wikipedia

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    Other male names: Joni (Indonesian for Johnny), and Budi (widely used in elementary textbooks). Ini ibu Budi (this is Budi's mother) is a common phrase in primary school's standardized reading textbook from 1980s until it was removed in 2014. [21] Popular female placeholder names are Ani, Sinta, Sri, Dewi.

  7. List of nicknames used by Donald Trump - Wikipedia

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    Meatball Ron [42](denied by Trump)[43] Tiny D [44] Ditzy DeVos [45][46] Betsy DeVos. 11th U.S. Secretary of Education; former chair of the Michigan Republican Party. Jeff Flakey [6][47] Jeff Flake. Former U.S. Senator from Arizona; former member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Arizona.

  8. Fake news websites in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Fake news websites target United States audiences by using disinformation to create or inflame controversial topics such as the 2016 election. [1][2] Most fake news websites target readers by impersonating or pretending to be real news organizations, which can lead to legitimate news organizations further spreading their message. [3]

  9. List of fictional espionage organizations - Wikipedia

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    During the 1960s trend for action-adventure spy thrillers, it was a common practice for fictional spy organizations or their nemeses to employ names that were contrived acronyms. Sometimes these acronyms' expanded meanings made sense, but most of the time they were words incongruously crammed together for the mere purpose of obtaining a catchy ...