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  • 2017-12-06 (xsd:date)
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  • Did Denzel Washington Once Call Obama the 'Criminal-In-Chief?' (en)
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  • Since at least 2016, fake news purveyors have been attempting to paint actor Denzel Washington as a staunch support of President Donald Trump. In August of that year, for example, untrustworthy web sites falsely claimed that the actor shocked Hollywood when he switched sides to support the Republican candidate for president. The utterly disreputable YourNewsWire.com took a different approach to this long-running lie in a December 2017 article in which they claimed that Washington had criticized Trump's predecessor Barack Obama as the criminal-in-chief: This is not a genuine quote from Denzel Washington. YourNewsWire.com has a long history of publishing inflammatory misinformation, conspiracy theories, and fake news. No credible outlets documented the actor saying this, and the actor's publicist confirmed to Media Matters that the story was completely fictitious. Despite the disreputable source for this quote, the article was widely shared as genuine news by several people on social media. CNN law enforcement analyst Harry Houck lent some faux credibility to the article when he shared it on Facebook along with the caption without a doubt. Houck later replaced the story and with a message apologizing for the error — I apologize for retweeting a fake news story re: Denzel Washington I didn't even read — before deleting the post entirely. In January 2017, the same site misrepresented a video clip of Washington in order to make it seem as if was taking a personal swipe at Meryl Streep after the actress criticized Trump. (en)
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