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In the month of August 2015, a number of websites published an article indicating that Wawa has announced that all stores will be closed at the end of December 2015 and no one will be operational in the month of January 2016. These articles reported that the chain of Wawa stores will be closed at the end of this year. This news circulated on Facebook, Twitter and a number of social media and entertainment websites. The links on Facebook are included an encapsulated headline that Wawa has announced closing its all stores by the start on January 2016 because of decreasing business of Wawa, this news is also including a photograph of a Wawa store.

Most of the users and visitors didn’t open the links before sharing these posts apparently relevant headlines, but some of them also viewed this linked image. These posts claimed about Wawa’s chain of stores are being closed, but it is considered that it is published by trick generator website FeedNewz (former name Prank.link). it allowed most of the social media users to create fake news stories. Most of the users of FeedNewz publishing fake news or pranks such as published articles about Taco Bell shutting down all of its locations and Channing Tatum is considered as gay, Mountain Dew has stopped manufacturing, EastEnders star Danny Dyer had died, the MMA champion Ronda Rousey was exposed off her title after failing in a drug test.