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  • 2017-10-23 (xsd:date)
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  • Did Sarah Huckabee Sanders Wear a KKK Halloween Costume in 1993? (en)
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  • An image purportedly showing White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders dressed in a Ku Klux Klan costume for Halloween in 1993 was circulated on social media in October 2017 after it was posted to the Wake Up America Facebook page: Not only is Sarah Huckabee Sanders not the girl in the photograph, the image has nothing to do with Halloween, is not from 1993, and was not taken in Little Rock, Arkansas. Photojournalist Anthony Karen took the photograph in 2007. Ms. Ruth, a woman who sews hoods and robes for Klan members in Mississippi, made the KKK robe that the pictured girl wore in the photograph. Karen interviewed Miss Ruth for a photo-essay published in Mother Jones in 2008: Although this image is not currently available on Karen's web site, the same child (along with the hanging robes behind her) can be seen in at least two of his other photographs. Karen also sent us a copy of the original photograph and confirmed via email that the image was part of the same set of photographs taken in September 2007: Sarah Huckabee Sanders was approximately 25 years old when these photographs were taken in 2007. The Facebook page that circulated this image in October 2017 likely knew that this image didn't actually show the White House press secretary, as it was accompanied by a quote stating: The problem is not whether this photo is real or not - it's that no one would be surprised in the slightest if it IS real. We'd argue that the actual problem is that fake photographs are being shared with false claims in order to amplify the echo chamber and reinforce preconceived (and often erroneous or inflammatory) beliefs. (en)
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