ARCHIVE RECORD 071916-PF
RECOVERED HYPERLINK: PAPAL ENDORSEMENT STORY (2016)
The page that lived here was fabricated. The link outlived it.
▮ RECOVERED TRANSMISSION
CH 6 · ARCHIVE BAND
ORIGINAL RECORD STATUSFABRICATED
LEGACY NETWORKDECOMMISSIONED
ARCHIVE RECOVERED2026
CURRENT OPERATORUNRELATED
ORIGINAL DATE2016-07-19 (reported by BuzzFeed News (Dec 2016))
RECORD ADDRESS:
/archive/071916-pf/
In July 2016 this address carried a story headlined “Pope Francis Shocks World, Endorses Hillary Clinton for President, Releases Statement.” It was not true. No such endorsement was made, then or since. The headline is reproduced here only so you can recognise the link you followed.
A fabricated political story that circulated from this domain in July 2016, claiming a papal endorsement that never happened. It was one of several near-identical "papal endorsement" hoaxes produced by a network of fake local-TV news websites. No such endorsement was ever made.
What survives: the hyperlink, the fact-checks, and a web-page-shaped hole. The present site occupies the domain, not the claim.
RECORD 071916-PF · ORIGINAL BROADCAST NOT RETAINED
NO SIGNAL
FRAME NOT RECOVERED
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CONTEXT — SURVIVING THIRD-PARTY RECORDS
- → Snopes fact-check — "Pope Francis Shocks World, Endorses Hillary Clinton for President" (July 24, 2016)
- → BuzzFeed News — "The True Story Behind The Biggest Fake News Hit Of The Election" (Dec 16, 2016)
External. Not operated by this site.
CANONICAL ADDRESS
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