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On 18 March 2017, the web site known as The Resistance: America's Last Line of Defense (aka The Resistance: Twisted News for Conservative Minds) posted an article positing that George Soros, the Hungarian-American billionaire and philanthropist, had perished in a plane crash while on a trip to his home country: This report was picked up as news by multiple other dubious political sites (such as Conservative Info Corner and usanewsport.us), even though the disclaimer on the America's Last Line of Defense web site clearly identifies the site's content as satirical: America's Last Line of Defense then spoofed their own story (and extant conspiracy theories about Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton) by posting a follow-up article positing that Soros hadn't died in a plane crash; he had traveled to Hawaii:
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