In January 25th of this year, a South
African satirical news site, satirenews.co.za, published a ‘story’
headlined, ‘Law Passed: All HIV Positive People Would Be Marked Near
Their Genitals’.
The ‘story’ reads as follows:
The story was initially ignored. But on
April 23, it was repeated by a Tanzanian website as fact and within
days it was disseminated throughout blogs and news sites thoughout
Africa, and beyond, also as fact.
If you Google for ‘Zuma HIV tattoo law’,
you’ll see that there are now more than 83,000 search results. The
story also continues to be disseminated as fact on Twitter.
Not everyone believes it, thankfully, including this commenter on the original ‘satire’ site.
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