{"id":1836,"date":"2019-04-06T19:33:49","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T19:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/?p=1836"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T17:00:00","slug":"Hoax---'Pope-Comes-Out-as-Gay'","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/?p=1836","title":{"rendered":"Hoax &#8211; &#8216;Pope Comes Out as Gay&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Image: &amp;copy depositphotos.com\/miqu77<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Outline<\/h2>\n<p>Social media driven message, couched as a news report, claims that \u00a0<span class=\"example\">Pope Benedict XVI resigned his papacy because he is gay and &#8220;could no longer live a lie&#8221;. \u00a0 <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- HS Net Top Content Responsive --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0355887770822260\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"4870821038\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Brief Analysis<\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"example\">The message is a hoax. Pope Benedict<\/span> \u00a0<span class=\"example\">XVI \u00a0<\/span>made no such announcement. The story originates from a satirical website that publishes purely fictional reports in a news-like format.<\/p>\n<h2>Example<\/h2>\n<div class=\"example\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/pope-gay-hoax.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"21347\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/hoax-pope-comes-out-as-gay\/pope-gay-hoax\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/pope-gay-hoax.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"668,215\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"pope-gay-hoax\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/pope-gay-hoax-300x97.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/pope-gay-hoax.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21347\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/pope-gay-hoax.jpg\" alt=\"Pope Gay Hoax Message\" width=\"668\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/pope-gay-hoax.jpg 668w, https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/pope-gay-hoax-300x97.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/pope-gay-hoax-500x161.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/pope-gay-hoax-585x188.jpg 585w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 668px) 100vw, 668px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pope Benedict XVI announced today that he has resigned his papacy because he is gay and &#8220;could no longer live a lie.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Detailed Analysis<\/h2>\n<p>This message, which is currently gaining momentum on Facebook and other social media sites, claims that Pope Benedict XVI has announced that he is gay and decided to resign his papacy because he could no longer live a lie. The message circulates in the guise of a news item and includes a picture of the Pope along with a link to the full report on the issue on dailycurrant.com. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\"\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\n     data-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0355887770822260\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"9162856233\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p> However, not surprisingly, \u00a0<span class=\"example\">Pope Benedict<\/span> \u00a0has made no such announcement. The \u00a0<a class=\"norm\" title=\"The Daily Currant - Pope Benedict Comes Out as Gay\" href=\"http:\/\/dailycurrant.com\/2013\/02\/28\/pope-benedict-gay\/\">story was first published<\/a> \u00a0on satirical website, The Daily Currant and is not a genuine news report. The Daily Currant&#8217;s &#8220;About&#8221; page \u00a0<a class=\"norm\" title=\"The Daily Currant - About\" href=\"http:\/\/dailycurrant.com\/about\/\">explains the site&#8217;s purpose \u00a0<\/a>thusly:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>The Daily Currant is an English language online \u00a0satirical \u00a0newspaper that covers global politics, business, technology, entertainment, science, health and media. Our mission is to ridicule the timid ignorance which obstructs our progress, and promote intelligence &#8211; which presses forward.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Our stories are purely fictional. However they are meant to address real-world issues through satire and often refer and link to real events happening in the world.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The stories published on The Daily Currant are not factual as most people who visit the site itself will quickly realize.<\/p>\n<p>However, when such satirical pieces are lifted from their original context and began circulating via other media, they are apt to fool at least a few readers into believing their claims.<\/p>\n<p><\/br><\/br> Original Source : <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/hoax-pope-comes-out-as-gay\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/hoax-pope-comes-out-as-gay\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: &amp;copy depositphotos.com\/miqu77 Outline Social media driven message, couched as a news report, claims that \u00a0Pope Benedict XVI resigned his papacy because he is gay and &#8220;could no longer live a lie&#8221;. \u00a0 Brief Analysis The message is a hoax. Pope Benedict \u00a0XVI \u00a0made no such announcement. The story originates from a satirical website that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hoax-inggris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}