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  • 2021-12-15 (xsd:date)
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  • Did a Sign in Alaska IHOP Blame Biden for Curtailed Hours? (en)
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  • In December 2021, multiple news outlets and social media users reported that a sign at an International House of Pancakes (IHOP) restaurant in Alaska blamed U.S. President Joe Biden for a shortage of workers, and the need to cut ordinary opening hours. On Dec. 14, for example, Fox Business published an article whose headline read: Sign at Alaska IHOP blames Biden 'free money' for staffing woes: 'Nobody wants to work anymore.' That report, and several others, cited a widely-shared Dec. 10 tweet posted by @ThatOtherDude12, whose account has since been deleted. The tweet contained a photograph of what appeared to be a typed-up sign, ostensibly on behalf of the restaurant's management, which read: The anti-Biden IHOP sign was real, and was posted by an employee at the Wasilla, Alaska, location. As such, the basic claim at the heart of multiple news reports and social media posts, in December 2021, was accurate, and as a result we're issuing a rating of True. Some outlets did initially misreport aspects of the incident — including where it took place and when — but neither detail fundamentally altered the core claim, which was confirmed by the company itself. In an emailed statement, an IHOP spokesperson told Snopes: We asked the company whether the person who posted the anti-Biden flyer was a manager or non-management worker, but we did not receive any clarification in time for publication. Several outlets, including the Daily Mail, the New York Post, and BoingBoing, initially reported that the incident took place in Arkansas, before later correcting that error. The Daily Dot and the Daily Wire had not corrected the same error, as of Dec. 15. The confusion may have arisen from the IHOP statement distributed to the media, which referred to Wasilla, AK, initials that some reporters may have mistaken for those of Arkansas (AR or Ark.). Furthermore, although the picture of the sign went viral in mid-December, it was actually taken in November, and posted online at that time. It's not clear who originally published it online, or on what platform, but we found a Reddit post from as early as Nov. 1: While elements of the story were misreported, the core claim was not substantially misrepresented: as confirmed by the company itself, an employee at the Wasilla restaurant did indeed post a flyer that blamed Biden for that location's staffing problems and curtailed hours. (en)
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