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In early 2016, a false claim from 2014 about a Texas man supposedly forced to take down his American flag it because it offended Muslims was resurrected on social media. Those who spread this claim in early 2016 believed that the events it described were both accurate and recent, although neither aspect was correct: Social media users who ventured to click through to read the underlying article before re-sharing could have spotted that the events in question took place in June 2014, as described in a contemporaneous Fox News article:However, no other parties substantiated Tran's assertion that he was asked to remove his U.S. flag due solely (or even partly) to the reason that it was considered threatening to any Muslims. Houston television station KHOU obtained comment from the Lodge at El Dorado, the apartment complex where Tran's supposedly threatening flag was displayed, and the manager of that business stated that the issue with the Tran's flag was the manner of its display (i.e., hung on an apartment balcony railing) and not the mere fact that it was a U.S. flag or was considered a threatening symbol to Muslims: Of course, it makes no sense whatsoever that if the business' management were truly against displaying the American flag (for any reason), they would crack down its exhibition by one single resident while still flying the very same flag at the entrance to their apartment complex. And the KHOU reported noted that we saw other patriotic symbols hanging from other balconies in the complex, so the issue was pretty clearly about the manner of the flag's display and not any issues regarding its symbolism.
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