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On 18 October 2016, the web site FAMMTV published an article claiming that President Obama had passed a law allowing beneficiaries of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), commonly known as food stamps, to purchase hot food (a long-debated restriction prohibits the use of SNAP benefits for most food items in that category). The claim as presented was not very credible, nor did it link to news of any such law passed by President Obama: Even if such an assertion had been presented in a marginally believable manner, it wouldn't pass muster with those possessed rudimentary knowledge of how executive power works. U.S. presidents can neither create nor pass laws on their own: FAMMTV features no disclaimer we could find warning their readers that articles such as the hot food one are not on the up-and-up, although there is clearly no truth to the claim. The site previously spread a similar falsehood holding that all unemployed baby mamas would be jailed if they failed to find jobs.
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