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  • 2017-01-17 (xsd:date)
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  • Obama Orders Life-Sized Bronze Statue of Himself to Be Permanently Installed in White House? (en)
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  • On 31 December 2016, the Empire News web site published an article reporting that outgoing President Barack Obama had ordered a life-sized bronze statue of himself to be permanently installed at the White House: Although Empire News is a well-known purveyor of fake news (the site carries a disclaimer clearly stating that its content is fictional), this fabricated story was picked up and republished by several other online outlets. Both En-Volve.com and WashingtonFeed.com, among others, shared this fake news story along with a photograph purportedly showing the statue in the Oval Office: The statue seen above is real, but it was not placed or photographed inside the Oval Office. The statue was actually installed at an outdoor location in Puerto Rico in 2012. It appears that the hoaxsters combined a photograph of the statue taken by Flickr photographer Paul Sableman in 2013 with a photograph of a replica Oval Office built in Texas to create a faux image seemingly showing the statue inside the White House: (en)
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