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  • 2016-08-03 (xsd:date)
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  • Denzel Washington Switches to Trump (en)
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  • In August 2016, the unreliable web site Anews24 posted an article with the grammatically challenged headline: Denzel Washington Switches to Trump Shocks Hollywood, Speaks Out Against Obama: The article continued through two additional paragraphs concerning Denzel Washington's devotion to his faith, but never mentioned Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump (or Washington's alleged endorsement of him) again. And while one might have logically assumed that the opening quotation consisted of words spoken by Denzel Washington, at no point in the article were they actually attributed to him. In fact, the words were spoken by Charles Evers, the brother of murdered '60s civil rights activist Medgar Evers, not Denzel Washington. Evers, not Washington, endorsed Trump in an interview for a 5 March 2016 story in the New York Post: Washington has been a supporter of Barack Obama in the past, but as of August 2016 he had not formally endorsed any presidential candidate. This fake article was later repurposed to make similar false claims about actor Brad Pitt. (en)
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