inSing.com, 17 Jan 2013New Nation, a satire site that writes “fake news half the time”, released an article titled ‘Woman faints to unite Singapore’ along with a picture of a woman on the ground and people attending to her.
In it, the unidentified woman was quoted as saying: “Dr Chee pulled SDP (Singapore Democratic Party) out of the race to promote opposition unity. I am doing the same. I fainted so that all political parties can put aside their differences and attend to me.”
The article created such a buzz on Facebook that even Straits Times Online Mobile Print (STOMP) published its own version of the “incident” – just hours after the original was posted – on its website, without knowing that it was a spoof. Full story
