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On 4 September 2017, OurLandOfTheFree.com published a story purporting to reveal evidence of a planned coup by former U.S. President Barack Obama that had been conveniently exposed by Hurricane Harvey: The story is a fabrication. The site says as much in a disclaimer: There are other indications as to the story's nature. For one, there is no record of a town in Texas called Lexmar, let alone any small towns near it. The story also includes a picture allegedly taken on 4 September 2017 in Kirkmere, Texas: Again, there is no record of a community by that name in the state. Also, a search for the image reveals that it was taken in May 2010, just outside what has been described as a Russian ammunition warehouse: The story also invoked the name of Operation Jade Helm 15, a 2015 United States military exercise that was the focus of several conspiracy theories before it began — but which eventually proceeded without incident. While Our Land of the Free is a satirical news site, other sites ran their own versions of the same story, mostly verbatim, but without a disclaimer labeling themselves as fictitious.
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