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A common tactic of clickbait web sites is to publish items via social media under sensationalist political headlines in order to lure readers into following their links. What readers typically find at the other end of those links, however, are articles whose substance bears little or no relationship to their melodramatic headlines. Multiple sites played on this technique in January 2017 by aggregating headline claims such as President Trump Makes ENGLISH The OFFICIAL LANGUAGE OF THE United States! But the text of the articles those sites pushed on social media described no legislation or order signed by President Trump establishing English as the United States' official language — only the (possibly temporary) removal of bilingual elements from the White House web site: Although English is the most commonly spoken language in the United States, and although several individual states have established English as their official language, the United States has not designated an official language at the federal level.
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