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On 19 May 2016, an article reporting that Target was going to stop selling American flags wended its way across social media: The story also includes a copy of an alleged leaked memo from Target's CEO, Bryan Hornell, in which he explained the reason for removing the American flag from stores: This is not an memo, official or otherwise, from Target. While the story quoted above can be easily be dismissed as fiction simply by looking at its source (a disreputable satire news site), the memo contains another clue: Target's chief executive officer is Bryan Cornell, not Bryan Hornell, as it is listed in the fake memo. This story quoted was published a day after another fake news article from the same site reported that Target had stopped selling the Bible. There is no truth to either of these stories; Target has not announced that it anticipates sales of either the Bible or the American flag to stop. Bryan Cornell, Target's CEO (and not the fictional Bryan Hornell) also said that the boycott over the store's transgender bathroom policy is not affecting sales.
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