![\\"logo\\"](\\"/img/logo-dpa-factchecking.svg\\"/) * WhatsApp service * About Us ![\\"IFCN](\\"/img/ifcn-certificate.png\\"/) ![\\"EFCSN](\\"/img/efcsn- certificate.png\\"/) # Alleged article about Macaulay Culkin is fictional June 25, 2020, 6:17 p.m. (CEST) A Facebook post claims actor Macaulay Culkin (“Kevin – Home Alone”) said in a radio interview that Hollywood elites would murder children in satanic rituals. As a source is the French newspaper “Les Échos”, which has an article about it is said to have been removed shortly after publication. ( RATING: There is no proof of the authenticity of the item and the Interviews on which the article will be based. The financial newspaper “Les Échos” announced that the item was a fake. FACTS: The text is not an article from the newspaper was published, but was fake news, “Les Échos” asked the German Press Agency via email. The screenshot of the alleged article with Culkin is fake. Appear in the newspaper especially articles on economic and financial topics. The Facebook post also talks about a radio interview, which is called is said to have served as the source for the alleged article in “Les Échos”. A Note on which radio station, on which show and on which day the interview was supposed to have been conducted is missing. According to common journalistic standards However, standards would be in a real article with so many quotes called source. A Google search on an alleged radio interview with Culkin in Paris during the period in question does not result in a hit. ( The text in the Facebook post was previously published in English on several websites and published in different versions. Some of them are just still available as an archived version. ( The US internet portal “Mashable” named the website “YourNewsWire”, on which, among other things, the article about Culkin was distributed was, “one of the well-known providers of fake news on the Internet”. ( Among other things, the fact checkers from “Snopes” and the website “hoaxbuster.com” have already taken care of the fake interview. ( \--- Left: Facebook posting: (archived: Google search for interview: (archived: Removed page on «NeonNettle»: murder-children-during-rituals Archived article at “YourNewsWire”: Archived article at “News Punch”: Article at “Mashable”: domain-facebook-fake-news/?europe=true (archived: Fact check from «Snopes: satanic-hollywood/ (archived: Fact check from “hoaxbuster.com”: techno/2018/01/19/les-chos-font-du-bruit (archived: \--- Contact the dpa fact check team: factcheck-oesterreich@dpa.com powered by dpa-newslab | Imprint | Privacy | About:
Actor Macaulay Culkin Home Alone said in a radio interview that Hollywood elites were murdering children in satanic rituals The French newspaper Les Échos is named as the source and is said to have removed an article about it shortly after publication