In stunning reveal, hexbear moderator team announced franchise transfer of the reviled website to the fakene,ws owners. According to rumors, the cost of the deal was 20 dollars and a rat named Johnny. New owners are reportedly happy to keep their local franchise community c/fakenews, but plan to wind down c/news operations: "We think addition of hexbear non-drama prone community to our fakene,ws operation will allow us to reach new audiences across lemmyverse. We don't want to create confusion with yet existing fake fakenews comm (c/news), and thus plan to close it immediately"