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  • 2018-10-10 (xsd:date)
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  • Was Taylor Swift 'Busted' on a Date with Colin Kaepernick? (en)
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  • Pop songstress Taylor Swift made waves in early October 2018 by announcing she would vote for a Democratic senatorial candidate in Tennessee's upcoming midterm election, breaking her longstanding silence on political issues, according to multiple press reports. The move earned Swift both kudos and jeers from the public. Predictably, it also inspired junk news purveyors to fabricate stories related to her foray into politics. A report that appeared on America's Last Line of Defense (LLOD) (and was reposted on at least two other websites) proclaimed that Swift was busted on a date with former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who is best known for protesting racial injustice by kneeling during renditions of the national anthem: Despite the claim that a photographer documented Swift's presence outside an infamous club and known socialist hangout called Klub Karl in San Francisco, the only image accompanying the article appeared to show her instead standing outside Alice Tully Hall in New York's Lincoln Center. There is, in fact, no Klub Karl in San Francisco. America's Last Line of Defense is part of a network of websites and social media accounts notorious for publishing so-called satirical content with clickbait headlines aimed at ridiculing conservative viewpoints. A disclaimer on the site warns: Two other websites that reposted the same spurious article verbatim (astepaheadofeveryone.live and phoenixnews5.site) bore no such disclaimer. (en)
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