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On 18 May 2016, the Daily Snark web site reported that Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo has been arrested for using a men's bathroom in the state of North Carolina: The name of the publishing site and the obviously tongue-in-cheek nature of the article should have been dead giveaways that the report was a spoof, but many readers nonetheless confused it for a legitimate news item. Aside from taking shots at Romo's prowess as a quarterback, the article echoed previous fake news pieces falsely holding that Romo had admitted to a homosexual romance with a teammate and that political troll Ann Coulter had similarly been arrested for trying to use a women's bathroom in Charlotte, N.C.
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