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Perhaps owing to a sense of trepidation about the upcoming change in presidential administrations, multiple readers contacted us asking whether The Out and Abouter's 18 January 2017 article about a privacy hedge along the Canada-U.S. border was a genuine news story: The article's obvious reference to new U.S. President Donald Trump's controversial plans to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, and its tongue-in-cheek nod to vaunted Canadian politeness, clearly identified it as a work of satire — as did the display of the terms SATIRE, COMMENTARY, SATIRICAL COMMENTARY in the The Out and Abouter's masthead. The site published a post in November 2016 stating that they would be taking steps to avoid being confused for purveyors of fake news:
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