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In February 2016, the transcript of a speech Hillary Clinton purportedly gave to Goldman Sach's on 4 June 2013 started circulating online: Several publications, such as BSNews, CounterPunch, and Dissident Voice, lent credence to the transcripts when they published them in full. These web sites all attributed its text to author K.J. Noh, who is not affiliated with the Clinton campaign. While the aforementioned web sites are not exclusively satirical publications, they do occasionally (as is the case above) publish satire: While we couldn't find any indication that BSNews had labeled the above-quoted story as satire, Counter Punch featured a satire alert at the top of its article and the Dissident Voice (where the purported transcript of Clinton's speech first appeared) filed the story as piece of fiction: The transcripts of Hillary Clinton's speeches to Goldman Sachs have not been leaked or published anywhere on the internet. When the Democratic presidential candidate was asked about the speeches she made during a town hall meeting on 18 February 2016, she said that she would release them when the other candidates did the same:
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