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    Posts Distort Facts on Obama, Flint

    by Angelo Fichera Mar 05, 2019 3 minutes
    Quick Take

    Social media posts distort the facts to misleadingly claim that President Barack Obama “declared Flint water crisis a National Emergency and never fixed it.”

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    After President Donald Trump declared a national emergency to secure funding for his proposed border wall, misleading social media posts took aim at the decision by contrasting it with the Flint, Michigan, water crisis.

    Now, Facebook are again invoking that water contamination issue, this time directing ire at former President Barack Obama.

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