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On 13 December 2017, a self-described satire site posted a story falsely reporting that black voters in Alabama had committed fraud by voting multiple times during a special election the night before, in which Democratic candidate Doug Jones beat Republican Roy Moore in a closely-watched and hotly-contested fight for the Senate seat left vacant by United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions. The web site called ReaganWasRight.com reported: Nothing about this story is true — if readers scroll to the bottom of the page it bears a label declaring itself satire, although whether one finds its content funny is, of course, subjective: The web site ReaganWasRight.com is associated with a network of sites run by Christopher Blair, who writes under various pseudonyms, including Flagg Eagleton. Although the stories on his sites (which include The Last Line of Defense, Freedum Junkshun, and As American As Apple Pie) are labeled satire, they contain content many readers mistake as real, particularly when they are picked up and run by bottom-feeder aggregator sites that display no such labels or caveats. The article in question is a compilation of slopped-together information that has no bearing in reality. The Federal Election Commission oversees campaign finance, but it has no role to play in voting, voter access, or ballots. The quote supposedly taken from a Breitbart.com report is falsified. According to the Alabama Secretary of State's office (which does oversee voting and ballots), there have been no reports of widespread voter fraud. In late October 2017, Blair apologized for another racially-charged story posted on Freedum Junkshun, which falsely reported U.S. Army Sgt. La David Johnson, the black soldier who was killed in action along with three others when their patrol was ambushed in Niger, was a deserter.
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