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In late September 2017, as Puerto Rico struggled to address the damage from Hurricane Maria, mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz Soto of the United States commonwealth's capital city, San Juan, spoke out about its worsening humanitarian crisis, which has been exacerbated by a sluggish federal response: Immediately after this, rumors popped up about Cruz and her leadership (or lack thereof), up to and including a snippet from a Puerto Rico radio program purporting to be an interview with a police officer (but without any corroborating evidence or citations to support her claims; not even a name from the radio show caller claiming to be a police officer): Despite this lack of evidence, the rumors were immediately picked up and distributed as fact.
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