The teen girl who claimed she was attacked by trump supporters on a NYC subway went missing for 2 days and has deleted her facebook page.
Perhaps media outlets reporting this as a factual incident without following up should have, you know, done more to confirm it.
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Among media outlets that reported this incident as a fact without "allegedly": Buzzfeed, Yahoo, Slate, TPM, Gothamist, NBC, CBS NY.
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Twitter account and YouTube channel still active but the post on her FB claiming she was assaulted is gone as is her FB page.
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NYDN is only one running a follow up story which questions the account.http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/muslim-student-allegedly-harassed-trump-supporters-safely-home-article-1.2907151 …
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Fake News at its best.
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But that does not disprove other similar accounts. Each are individual stories.
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It actually hurts real victims of hate crimes. No different than rape hoaxing.
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Exactly. Nothing hurts the real reports more than false claims.
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that would mean leaving Twitter for 5mins.
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File that one under to good to confirm.
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