Officials forced to deny fake news story

ABOUT ‘WHITE SUPREMACIST’ MURDER OF BLACK TEENS

Hoax article received an astonishing 21,000 Facebook shares

Local officials were forced to deny a fake news story that claimed two black teens were murdered by white supremacists at a July 4th festival in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina after the post went viral on Facebook.

The article, posted by the ‘NewsWatch 33‘ website, reported that three black teens were brutally attacked by a group of “white guys” after they protested against the Confederate flag. The black teens were subjected to racial slurs before being attacked with bats, the site claimed. Two of the victims were pronounced dead at the scene while another was in critical condition. Police subsequently labeled the massacre a “hate crime”.

However, the incident never occurred. As ABC 15 reports, “There was no hate crime attack in Myrtle Beach over the July 4th holiday weekend.”

“There’s no reason for that (story) to exist, it’s false, it’s made up. I can’t explain that,” said city spokesman Mark Kruea. After receiving numerous calls about the story, Myrtle Beach police also sent out a post on Facebook and Twitter asserting that the incident did not happen.

Kruea pleaded with other media outlets to report the hoax and “expose this darkness from wherever it came.”

The fake story was shared an incredible 21,000 times on Facebook despite being completely bogus.

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