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  • 2016-03-14 (xsd:date)
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  • Texas Residents Forced to Pay Slavery Reparations? (en)
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  • On 12 March 2016, the unreliable web site American News published article claiming that recently passed resolution required residents of a Texas county to pay slavery reparations to African-Americans: The article was also picked up a few days later by verbatim by the web site Defund.com, which claimed that the measure in question has passed last week. The only truth to either article was that, as noted in an item published by The Dallas Morning News back in June 2014, Dallas County has passed a non-binding Juneteenth Resolution (largely voted for by country commissioners who hadn't bothered reading it first) that did not result in any tax money changing hands or the mandatory payment of reparations: While American News isn't a standard fake news site, it primarily trafficks in recycling misleading, satire-based, or years-old information under clickbait headlines. Among the many less-than-credible items published by that site are claims about after-birth abortions, America opening its first FEMA camp, Sadie Robertson's being gravely injured in a car wreck, Beyonce's being was banned from Canada over her Super Bowl 2016 performance, President Obama's personally banning an admiral from distributing Bibles, and new evidence casting doubt on the veracity of President Obama's birth certificate. In June 2015, American News attracted traffic by falsely claiming that the President had announced he was forcing all Americans to pay reparations. (en)
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