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In January 2020, we started receiving queries about an essay supposedly written by actor and director Ron Howard that began I am a liberal, but that doesn't mean what a lot of you apparently think it does. Here's an excerpt from the start of the essay. The original text can be found at the bottom of this article: While several postings of this text attributed the essay to Howard, this article circulated on social media long before his name was attached to it. The article was actually written by author Lori Gallagher Witt and was posted to her Facebook page in January 2018. As this article spread on social media, Witt's name was eventually stripped from the text. When the article appeared on the website Medium in August 2019, for instance, it was preceded by an introduction explaining that a friend had posted the article from an anonymous author on Facebook: Witt has commented on how her work was separated from her name. In July 2019, she noted how one website was sharing her text without proper attribution: In January 2020, she lamented that her work was once again spreading on social media without her name attached to it: Here's Witt's original Facebook post: In short, the popular internet essay starting I'm a liberal, I've always been a liberal, but that doesn't mean what a lot of you apparently think it does was not written by director Ron Howard but by author Lori Gallagher Witt.
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