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  • 2016-01-11 (xsd:date)
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  • FALSE: Admiral Fired for Exposing Obama's Dubai Mansion Purchase (en)
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  • On 9 January 2016, Stars and Stripes published an article reporting that Rear Adm. Rick Williams had been relieved of duty just six months after command of Carrier Strike Group 15: A 9 January 2016 Navy Times article elaborated that the disciplinary action taken against Williams stemmed from his use of government computers to view pornography: On 10 January 2016, disreputable web site whatdoesitmean.com published an article (Top US Admiral Fired for Questioning Obama Purchase of Mansion in Dubai) that spun Williams' story as one in which he was relieved of command for questioning Obama's purchase of mansion in Dubai: None of the latter version of the tale was true. There is no record of President Obama's purchasing a mansion or any other property in Dubai. The story originated with a fake news source, the whatdoesitmean.com political conspiracy site, described by RationalWiki as follows: This is not the first time whatdoesitmean.com has started rumors with little base in reality. In May 2013, the site started a rumor claiming Russian president Vladimir Putin threatened the U.S. over the Obama administration's support of Monsanto; in October 2013, the site maintained that President Obama fired several military officers for disobeying his order to destroy Charleston as part of a false flag attack; in January 2014, it asserted President Obama planned to displace thousands of people in Montana in order to give their land to Native Americans. The image used to illustrate President Obama's purported mansion in Dubai appears to have been plucked at random from widely-available real estate listings in the UAE (seen below, labeled in subsequent iterations of the rumor): (en)
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