{"id":7038,"date":"2017-08-22T08:19:09","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T08:19:09","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-08-22T08:19:09","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T08:19:09","slug":"uae-national-news-agency-fabricated-fake-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/dubai\/en\/news\/uae-national-news-agency-fabricated-fake-news\/","title":{"rendered":"A Fake News Report That HH Sheikh Khalifa Is Stepping Down Has Been Denied By The National News Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A stark warning from the national news agency of the UAE, WAM, was shared on twitter, emphasising that attempts to fabricate the site have been made.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The national news agency shared two tweets to its official feed, warning users of the situation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Attempts to fabricate the #WAM<\/a> website have been made by unknown sources. 1\/2 #wamnews<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 WAM News \/ English (@WAMNEWS_ENG) August 21, 2017<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Please ensure that you continue to access #UAE<\/a> news coverage via the #WAM<\/a> website https:\/\/t.co\/5priUg53el<\/a> 2\/2#wamnews<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 WAM News \/ English (@WAMNEWS_ENG) August 21, 2017<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The tweets were shared on Monday evening<\/h3>\n

And on Tuesday, a bizarre hashtag began trending in Arabic…\u00a0<\/p>\n

The hashtag loosely translates to ‘Sheikh Khalifa steps down’.\u00a0<\/p>\n

With one tweeter sharing a screenshot of the evidently ‘fake news’.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u2014 Rashid Alhajri ???????? ???????????????????????????????? (@rashidalhajri88) August 20, 2017<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

However no reports confirm the information and the article is not on the authentic national news agency site, WAM.ae<\/a>\u00a0<\/h3>\n

\u00a0Suggesting it’s a part of the attempts of fabrication on the site. The domain looks to be wam.org.ae mimicking the official news site.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sheikh Khalifa was seen in out in an official capacity two months ago, receiving Eid Al Fitr well wishers.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Residents are warned to only trust news coming from the official site – WAM.ae.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A stark warning from the national news agency of the UAE, WAM, was shared on twitter, emphasising that attempts to fabricate the site have been made.\u00a0 The national news agency shared two tweets to its official feed, warning users of the situation.\u00a0 Attempts to fabricate the #WAM website have been made by unknown sources. 1\/2 … ","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"legacy_image":"https:\/\/cloud.lovindubai.com\/images\/uploads\/2017\/08\/_relatedEntryImage2x\/Screen-Shot-2017-08-22-at-11.09.34-AM.png?mtime=20170822110938","legacy_full_image":"https:\/\/cloud.lovindubai.com\/images\/uploads\/2017\/08\/_featuredImage\/Screen-Shot-2017-08-22-at-11.09.34-AM.png?mtime=20170822110938 880w","legacy_meta_tags":"A Fake News Report That HH Sheikh Khalifa Is Stepping Down Has Been Denied By The National News Agency - Lovin Dubai<\/title><meta name=\"description\" content=\"A stark warning from the national news agency of the UAE, WAM, was shared on twitter, emphasising that attempts to fabricate the site have been made.\nThe national news agency shared two tweets to its official feed, warning users of the situation.\">\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/lovindubai.com\/news\/uae-national-news-agency-fabricated-fake-news\">\n<!-- <link rel=\"amphtml\" href=\"https:\/\/lovindubai.com\/news\/uae-national-news-agency-fabricated-fake-news\/amp\">\n --><meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A Fake News Report That HH Sheikh Khalifa Is Stepping Down Has Been Denied By The National News Agency \">\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\">\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/lovindubai.com\/news\/uae-national-news-agency-fabricated-fake-news\">\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Use only wam.ae, no other domains \">\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/cloud.lovindubai.com\/images\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Screen-Shot-2017-08-22-at-11.09.34-AM.png?mtime=20170822110938\">\n<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"726\">\n<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"533\">\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"photo\">\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"lovindubai\">\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"A Fake News Report That HH Sheikh Khalifa Is Stepping Down Has Been Denied By The National News Agency \">\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@Cait_12\">\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\" A stark warning from the national news agency of the UAE, WAM, was shared on twitter, emphasising that attempts to fabricate the site have been made.\nThe national news agency shared two tweets to its official feed, warning users of the situation.\n\">\n<meta name=\"twitter:url\" content=\"https:\/\/lovindubai.com\/news\/uae-national-news-agency-fabricated-fake-news\">\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/cloud.lovindubai.com\/images\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Screen-Shot-2017-08-22-at-11.09.34-AM.png?mtime=20170822110938\">\n"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}