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The #MeToo movement involved a heightened awareness of sexual misconduct, overwhelmingly inflicted by men on women, and a slew of accusations against high-profile men in the realms of entertainment and politics during 2017-18. Against that background, in May 2018 a widely-shared Facebook post claimed that a woman named Emmylou Hayes had accused country music icon George Strait of sexually harassing and stalking her when two of them were in grade school. The post, published by by a page called The Mcnews Desk, read as follows: The post was no more than a joke based on the lyrics of Strait's 1995 country hit Check Yes or No. The lyrics of the song's first two verses and chorus are as follows: The conceit of the joke in the Facebook post was that an innocent childhood romance, as described in the song, was the basis of a real-life criminal investigation decades later. The Mcnews Desk Facebook page describes itself as the Alt-Right Onion (a reference to the well-known satirical web site) and produces what it calls news with a comedic twist.
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