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On 9 November 2016, the Duffel Blog web site published an article reporting that delayed absentee ballots submitted by active duty servicemen and women would have swung the election in Hillary Clinton's favor if they had been delivered in time to be counted: Duffel Blog is a military satire web site, and their About page demonstrates a humor-based style suggesting the above-referenced article was a spoof of slow military mail delivery service and not a genuine report of ballot submission delays. Unlike most satire sites, Duffel Blog seeks to amuse (not confuse) a specific and small audience: military personnel: Although readers familiar with Duffel Blog would immediately catch its satirical intent, the brand of humor it employs is very specific and often lost on civilians, and (due to the site's smaller scope) the occasional Duffel Blog article has caused social media confusion among those outside the military. Prior instances in which Duffel Blog articles were misidentified as genuine news included claims West Point posthumously revoked diplomas of confederate soldiers, the Army adopted a mandatory divorce policy to improve readiness, Ariana Grande joined ISIS, the USS Gabrielle Giffords would be the Navy's first gun-free warship, the Pentagon allocated large amounts of money for Powerball tickets to fund the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program, and Medal of Honor recipient Kyle Carpenter was stripped of his award after failing to complete a minor course while actively serving.
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