
An article with that headline also hasn’t been posted on the outlet’s verified social media accounts.

Nor does the purported story appear on the reporter’s author page. In recent days, social media users have been sharing a supposed Anchorage Daily News article that puts up the headline: “Virginia man arrested for having minecraft worlds that were exact replicas of classified US military bases.” The alleged article includes a picture of a man and of what look like military vehicles made in Minecraft.Ī review of the Anchorage Daily News website, however, did not turn up any articles matching the one shown in the Instagram post. Users have constructed things ranging from the Taj Mahal to the entire city of Manhattan, Business Insider reported. Minecraft is a popular brick-building game that Microsoft purchased for $2.5 billion in 2014, according to CNN.
