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Ever since the controversial August 2006 decision by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) to downgrade Pluto to a dwarf planet, debate over the former planet's status has continued both in science and in pop culture. In late January 2018, drawing on this debate, rumors about Pluto's reclassification as a planet appeared on Facebook and Twitter: Most iterations linked back to an undated 2017 item published on the web site Untold Universe, which reported: Although Untold Universe listed no source for the claim (which no other outlets reported), the text was taken nearly word-for-word from a 1 April 2017 article published by Futurism.com. Missing from the republished version were these important final words: Futurism.com's link to the IAU's press release announcing Pluto's reclassification actually lead to the Google results for April Fool's Day.
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