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24 Oct 2016
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Not sure who the young woman is in this news post, but I hope help comes her way. Miss Universe, Pia Wurtzbach, has never been to Malaysia and has been working in the States for the past week. Pia Alonzo
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24 Oct 2016
SEPANG: Police are denying a fake news report that says Pia Wurtzbach, Miss Universe 2016 from the Philippines, has been arrested in Malaysia for attempting to smuggle drugs into the country.
Sepang OCPD Asst Comm Abdul Aziz Ali said there was no truth to the report being widely spread on the Internet.
“She has not been arrested. Its a fake news report,” he said when contacted Sunday.
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A Fake Site Spreads Crazy News About Pia Wurtzbach
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On Sunday, October 23, several Facebook users shared a story with this fake headline: “Miss Universe Pia Wurtzbach arrested at Kuala Lumpur Airport with 10 kg of cocaine.” It also featured Pia’s picture.
The story was published on a website with a deceptively official-sounding name, News24-TV. We clicked on the website’s information page and it claimed to be part of a TV network based in Cologne, Germany. Of course, we doubt this claim.
Esther Swan of the Miss Universe Organization got wind of the fake news and posted a clarification on her Facebook page. “Miss Universe, Pia Wurtzbach, has never been to Malaysia and has been working in the States for the past week,” she wrote.
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