This week's question: Wealthy executives and other public figures are paying reputation managers to write fake news articles about them that show up high on Google searches, helping to bury real and less flattering news items. In seven words or fewer, please come up with the headline of a fake news article that you would like to appear on Google when your name is typed into the search box.
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