https://www.siliconvalley.com/2020/02/19/facebook-page-lauded-real-police-department-with-fake-stories/

The Facebook page “North Carolina Breaking News” contained some posts touting good deeds by police officers in the city of Winston-Salem. But the officers named in the posts didn’t exist.

The acts of kindness actually had happened — but years earlier and in other states, when real law enforcement professionals helped an injured dog and bought a car seat for a parent who couldn’t afford one.