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How did newspapers that used yellow journalism react when the USS Maine exploded in Cuba in 1898?

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They blamed Spain for the explosion and called for the US to declare war.

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They immediately assumed, without a piece of evidence, that the ship had been blown up by the Cuban government and reported this assumption as fact.
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