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On 15 August 2017, the satirical web site Our Land of the Free published an article with a headline stating that the white supremacist accused of killing a protester days earlier at a neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, is a Democrat who visited President Obama in the White House. The author misidentifies the man accused of a fatal vehicular attack in the body of the article, however, confusing him with the rally's organizer, Jason Kessler: To be perfectly clear, the aforementioned Jason Kessler is not the man who drove a car into a group of counter-protesters at the rally, killing one. The person charged with that crime is James Alex Fields, Jr., 20, of Maumee, Ohio. Kessler was the primary organizer of what he described as the pro-white demonstration in Charlottesville. Moreover, the photo presented by Our Land of the Free as evidence that Kessler is a Democrat is one of the more ludicrous digital manipulation jobs we've encountered in awhile: As best we can tell, that is accused Charlottesville killer James Fields' face (not Jason Kessler's) lamely pasted into the image, but the body doesn't belong to either of them. We located a copy of the original, unaltered photo, taken by official Obama White House photographer Pete Souza, and found that it documented an Oval Office encounter between President Obama, comedian Will Ferrell, and Ferrell's wife, Viveca in October 2011: As we observed earlier, Our Land of the Free is a satire web site, per this disclaimer found at the bottom of every page of the site: Potentially confusing for inattentive readers will be the fact that some of the untrustworthy sites reposting the article (Patriot USA and News Feed Observer, to name two) carry no such disclaimer. Regardless of where you read it, the story is false.
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