The man told police he had come to the restaurant to "self-investigate" a false election-related conspiracy theory involving Hillary Clinton that spread online during her presidential campaign.
A fake state-of-the-federation report, on the eve of a fake election, filled with false statements on a variety of topics, does not even pretend to describe reality; rather, it provides a direct look at the speaker's imagination.
We've put together some of the false election stories that were widely shared by search engines or on social media - alongside some events that did actually happen.
The study found that over the last three months of the election campaign, 20 top-performing false election stories from hoax sites and hyper-partisan blogs generated 8,711,000 shares, reactions, and comments on Facebook, whereas the 20 best-performing election stories from 19 major news websites generated a total of 7,367,000 shares, reactions and comments.
In Greater Manchester, police have launched five inquiries – three inquiries into the eligibility of candidates to stand in the elections, one into a claim that a person had voted twice and another into claims of a false statement on an election leaflet, a spokesman said.
The International Crisis Group called the 2005 election "a false start for reform".
But then it grew complacent, apparently due to a false assumption about the election, and even openly joined other organizations in firing on Israel.
Many foreign analysts, as well as Myanmar's opposition party, the National League for Democracy, have called the elections a false front intended to put a civilian face on the military's continued grip on power.
But Mr. Schluter said he believed that the traditional Sept. 1 deadline for raising the money was actually a false one, and that state election law actually required him only to file notice that he would seek matching funds.
Instead, we saw a build up of an alternative reality that later led to a false proclamation that the Obama election made us somehow 'post-racial'.
