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In June 2017, television show host Bill Maher dropped an offensive racial slur on his show Real Time with Bill Maher, sparking the usual wave of opinion articles and think pieces. The Chicago Tribune looked at what could be learned from Maher's remark, the Hollywood Reporter wondered aloud if Maher had just lost his chance at winning an Emmy... and CNN wrote an article explaining why it was acceptable for Maher to use the racial slur. Or did it? On 3 June 2017, a web site calling itself 70News published an article appearing to report that CNN had posted — then subsequently deleted — an article by Laura Jarrett, daughter of Valerie Jarrett: This obvious hoax received wide attention after it was promulgated by conservative pundits, such as Jack Posobiec and Dinesh D'Souza. Although D'Souza later issued a correction, which stated that he had been duped by a fake news article, Posobiec did not retract his claim: It further appears that 70Newssimply put a fake title on an image of a genuine article published by Laura Jarrett. A look at the actual story article published by CNN above the doctored image shows that they have identical timestamps: 70News is not a reliable source for factual information. The WordPress site peddles little more than conspiracy theories and misinformation, and was largely responsible for spreading the (completely and demonstrably false) rumor that President Trump won the popular vote.
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