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In April 2019, an article positing that Taylor Swift had humiliated a fan for wearing a Trump shirt at one of her concerts was published by dailyworldupdate.us, one of the many websites in Last Line of Defense network of junk news sites: Although that website carried a disclaimer and multiple satire tags, the article was later picked up and republished by a number of other disreputable websites without any indications of its origins. We found verbatim copies of this article published on America 2020 Review, Seattle Media Daily, Harley and the Davidsons, Conference Scene, and Fight for America. None of those websites carried a disclaimer labeling the article as a work of fiction. This article was also picked up and promulgated by dozens of social media accounts: We can't definitively say why these accounts all started sharing this piece of fake news about Swift, but the following message from the DanAconda account makes it seem like the intent was simply to sow division:
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