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  • 2020-10-27 (xsd:date)
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  • ‘Democrats Tried to Slip a Law Banning Pledge of Allegiance Into... (en)
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  • ‘Democrats Tried to Slip a Law Banning Pledge of Allegiance Into Aid Package’ Claim Democrats tried to slip a law banning the Pledge of Allegiance into an aid package. Rating Not True Like this fact check? Reporting In late October 2020, a number of people on Facebook appeared to share screenshots of what looked like an article headlined, Democrats Tried to Slip a Law Banning Pledge of Allegiance Into Aid Package. Source On March 25 2020, bustatroll.org ( part of America’s Last Line of Defense ) published an article bearing that same headline. Absent from the October 2020 screenshots, but visible in the source material, was the category under which the piece was filed, called Confirmation Bias Fiction For Boomers. It began: In stunning new findings released by the Dunning-Kruger Institute, Democrats were found to have added provisions to ban the Pledge of Allegiance, into the emergency aid package. The language, added by Pelosi and Schumer, was very clear of its intention: The passing of this legislative package will also outlaw the reciting of the Pledge of Allegiance in all schools in the United States. This statute will go into effect immediately upon this bill’s passage. Anyone found guilty of reciting the Pledge will be charged with grand heresy, and punished by up to 10 years in a federal penitentiary and a fine of no less than $20,000. Right off the bat, mention of the Dunning-Kruger Institute alluded to the Dunning-Kruger effect , a well-documented cognitive bias in which people with low ability at a task overestimate their ability, and which comes from the inability of people to recognize their lack of ability. Further, text of the article claimed that individuals found guilty would be charged with grand heresy, and punished by up to 10 years in a federal penitentiary and a fine of no less than $20,000. And finally, an About page at BustaTroll.org explained: Everything on this website is fiction. It is not a lie and it is not fake news because it is not real. If you believe that it is real, you should have your head examined. Any similarities between this site’s pure fantasy and actual people, places, and events are purely coincidental and all images should be considered altered and satirical. See above if you’re still having an issue with that satire thing. Florida is where wokes go to die... Please enable JavaScript Florida is where wokes go to die Summary It was never true that Democrats tried to slip a law banning the Pledge of Allegiance into any aid package of any description at any other time; that false claim came from a satire site. It was still untrue when it was repurposed and spread in a diffused cluster in late October 2020 six months after its initial publication, accompanied by screenshots which had cropped out its Confirmation Bias Fiction For Boomers tag. Posted in Disinformation , Fact Checks Tagged busta troll , bustatroll.com , coordinated disinfo , Joohn Choe , last line of defense , the last line of defense , viral facebook posts (en)
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