evidence: "Man faked being deaf and dumb for 62 years to avoid listening to his wife," screamed the headline of a World News Daily Report article published on 4 March 2019. Showing photos of an elderly couple, the story goes that "according to divorce papers" Barry Dawson (84) of Waterbury in the US state of Connecticut "never spoke a single word" in front of his wife Dorothy (80) "during the decades they lived together". [...] It tells of Burt (88) and Lucille "Lovey" Handlesman (87), a billionaire couple from Florida in the US, who divorced after 67 years. The divorce related to money and infidelity – not faked deafness.