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  • 2017-09-21 (xsd:date)
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  • Did Ashley Judd Say She Wanted to Live in the Middle East 'Where Women Have More Rights'? (en)
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  • In March 2017, actress Ashley Judd posted a link to a USA Today article concerning a proposed equal-rights amendment to the United States Constitution and how it relates to the issue of women's rights in countries around the world. She also included a partial quote from the article, which stated that the United States ranked 104th, behind countries such as Burundi, Serbia and Iraq: This tweet rankled some readers, who criticized Judd for saying that women in the Middle East had more rights than women in the United States. However, Judd never actually said that; the statistic Judd quoted (which was from USA Today, rather than her own words) actually dealt with the number of women represented in government, rather than gender rights across the board. Furthermore, two of the three countries mentioned in the USA Today quote — Burundi and Serbia — are not even Middle Eastern countries. The article linked by Judd dealt with Congresswoman Jackie Speier's effort to ratify an amendment to the United States Constitution. Using data compiled by the Inter-Parliamentary Union, the article explained that countries with an equal rights amendment had a larger percentage of women represented in government roles: Naturally, the fact that Judd didn't say that women in the Middle East had more rights than women in the United States or that she was moving there didn't stop dozens of biased and dubious outlets from publishing stories making such claims. The unreliable FreedomDaily.com was one of the first to claim that Judd said she wanted to move to the Middle East. Although the headline blared, Loud-Mouth Liberal Ashley Judd Wants To Live In Middle East Where Women Have ‘More Rights,’ Gets Unexpected Surprise!, the idea for the actress to move the Middle East came from the author of this piece, not Judd: Several other disreputable web sites, with names like NewsBreaksHere, USANewsHouse, NewInformation.Today, US Conservative, Daily News Cycle and To The Death Media published similar stories, evidently just aggregating or recycling them from the first misleading claim without doing any further research. Months later, in September 2017, yet another site, JoeForAmerica, revived the story: The claim was also conveniently boiled down to meme form for those who did not wish to read through two paragraphs of aggregated opinions: Ashley Judd tweeted a link to an article in March 2017 that was widely, and possibly deliberately, misinterpreted by sites not overly concerned with credibility; this plan of action was never actually proposed by the actress. (en)
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