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  • 2018-08-22 (xsd:date)
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  • Did a Judge Order That a White Woman Be Tried As an African-American? (en)
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  • The Onion may be the most well known source of satire in the United States, but its content still manages to fool readers on occasion, especially when they encounter it removed from its original context. That phenomenon occurred yet again on 18 August 2018, when the Facebook page Black Twitter posted a video purportedly showing a news report about a judge in Detroit who ruled that a white female teenager accused of murder should stand trial as an African-American man instead: This video was not a genuine news report, but rather a spoof of issues involving race and crime that was produced for the for the Onion News Network's satirical news show The FactZone with Brooke Alvarez. This particular segment appeared in the show's debut episode, which aired on 21 June 2011 on the IFC channel. The original video from The Onion's website can be viewed below: It doesn't appear that the Black Twitter Facebook page shared this video with the intent of fooling followers, as the following response was posted after some viewers mistook the video for a genuine news report: A contemporaneous report from TIME magazine provides some additional context about the satirical show that featured this clip: (en)
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