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On Dec. 3, 2019, the bustatroll.org website published an article positing that Rep. Adam Schiff, the chairman of the U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, had paid witnesses an aggregate amount of $40 million in taxpayer money to testify against President Donald Trump in impeachment proceedings: This item was not a factual recounting of real-life events. The article originated with a website that describes its output as being humorous or satirical in nature, as follows: Everything on this website is fiction. It is not a lie and it is not fake news because it is not real. For background, here is why we sometimes write about satire/humor.
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