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    Bogus Claim About Border Rape Revived

    by Saranac Hale Spencer Apr 30, 2019 2 minutes
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    An unsubstantiated claim from last fall about sexual violence at the southern border has been repackaged in a Facebook meme. U.S. Customs and Border Protection has no record of the alleged incident, and the website that first reported it has retracted the story.

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    Once fiction has been presented as fact, it’s hard to take back. Misinformation takes on a life of its own.

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