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  • 2017-08-07 (xsd:date)
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  • Starbucks Dreamer Day (de)
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  • On 2 August 2017, images advertising Starbucks Dreamer Day, indicating that the coffee chain planned to give a deep discount to undocumented immigrants circulated on social media: Other iterations said the Dreamer Day would take place on 10 September 2017: By 4 August 2017 @Starbucks began responding to shares of iterations of the image, denying any such promotion existed and asking Twitter users about the origins of the rumor: The second Starbucks tweet quoted was a response to a since-deleted tweet sent by @MariaChavez88, an account created on or around 3 August 2017 (almost certainly to seed the rumor on Twitter). Its second tweet was about the purported promotion, and its first about tacos: The image of fire tacos made by the user's auntie was swiped from recipe site Yummly. Even after the company denied the reports, pranksters continued to push the rumor: Before long, the claim inspired a second rumor that the first was a ruse to lure undocumented immigrants to central locations on a specific date. A 3 August 2017 thread posted to the DREAM Act forum warned: On 2 August 2017, users of 4Chan's /pol/ forum apparently concocted the phony Starbucks Dreamer Day promotion, as way to get all illegals to go at once and demand free stuff at a liberal place. Commenters immediately suggested calling Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as well. But the original concept was floated simply as a way to drive a wedge between various liberal factions: The 4chan/pol/ forum has been the source of a number of media hoaxes and social media pranks, typically designed to sow discord among liberals and progressives (or to simply get media outlets to report their claims as legitimate phenomena). Prior hoaxes hatched on /pol/ included claims that a black McDonald's worker named Bubba Conroy spit in white peoples' food; that Hillary Clinton's campaign started a #DraftOurDaughters initiative; and that individuals were identifying as clovergender. The hoaxes targeted what /pol/ users believed was political correctness, attempting to agitate social media users with rumors about race, gender identity, feminism, democratic socialism, and immigrants. (en)
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