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  • 2018-08-03 (xsd:date)
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  • Is Facebook Taking Down a Photograph Showing the Burial of Korean War Remains? (en)
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  • In mid-2018 the United States accepted 55 boxes turned over by North Korea, which were said to contain the remains of U.S. troops who died in Korea during or after the 1950-53 Korean War. Pentagon officials said it will likely take months or years to determine how many individuals those remains represent and identify them all. Around that news story, the Facebook page for the America's Last Line of Defense website posted a meme with a photograph of what looked like remains being interred in a military cemetery, along with text claiming that Facebook is taking down this picture in order to hide Trump's feat of returning Korean War dead!: This meme was completely false. Facebook isn't trying to remove the displayed picture, which has nothing to do with President Trump or the recent return of remains of Americans killed in the Korean War. It's a 2016 photograph from the Alamy stock photo service which shows a German-Russian military ceremony associated with the interment of the discovered remains of 38 Soviet soldiers who were killed fighting in Germany in the closing months of World War II: This meme was a fiction invented by America's Last Line of Defense, which is part of a network of fake news sites dedicated to spreading political misinformation under the guise of proffering satire. (en)
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