Curfew issued for Bossier city due to coronavirus.
The claim originated in an article published by react2424.com on March 13, 2020, titled "Curfew issued for Bossier City due to corona virus" (archived here). It opened:, Users on social media only saw this:, Mayor Lo Walker and the Bossier city police dept. have issued a 9PM curfew for all residents until further notice You may not use the roads and are required to be inside a residence till 6am. (This does not apply to people traveling through on the interstate) Not complying could land you jail time and fines. Bos, The claim is completely untrue. The main page of the react2424.com gives users a template for pranking their friends by creating fake news. In small type above the headline is this disclaimer:, , Even so, the story has been shared more than 92,000 times as of March 14, 2020. Like other fake news websites, it appears like a genuine news site and has probably fooled some readers into believing the story is true., While the Louisiana governor has closed schools to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, the Bossier City website has no information about a curfew for residents., We wrote about react2424.com before. Here are our most recent articles that mention the site:, See who is sharing it (it might even be your friends...) and leave the link in the comments.:, Lead Stories is working with the CoronaVirusFacts/DatosCoronaVirus Alliance, a coalition of more than 100 fact-checkers who are fighting misinformation related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Learn more about the alliance here., "Ryan Cooper, a staff writer and fact-checker for Lead Stories, is the former Director of Programming at CNN International, where he helped shape the networks daily newscasts broadcast to more than 280 million households around the world. He was based at the networks Los Angeles Bureau. There, he managed the team responsible for a three-hour nightly program,\xa0Newsroom LA.", "Formerly, he worked at the headquarters in Atlanta, and he spent four years at the London bureau. An award-winning producer, Cooper oversaw the networks Emmy Award-winning coverage of the uprising in Egypt in 2011. He also served as a supervising producer during much of the networks live reporting on the Israel-Hezbollah conflict in 2006, for which CNN received an Edward R. Murrow Award.", Lead Stories is a fact checking website that is always looking for the latest false, deceptive or\n      inaccurate stories (or media) making the rounds on the internet.\n      \n      Spotted something? Let us know!., Lead Stories is a fact checking website that is always looking for the latest false, deceptive or\n        inaccurate stories (or media) making the rounds on the internet.\n        \n        Spotted something? Let us know!.
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