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23 May 2017 Multiple fake news sites shared a fabricated claim that President Trump's new head of housekeeping found President Obama's drug stash.
18 May 2017 A satire site posing as a Fox News affiliate falsely claimed a statue of the Confederate leader would be replaced with one honoring Barack Obama.
16 May 2017 President Trump ordered the White House lit up in blue to commemorate Peace Officers Memorial Day 2017, prompting comparisons to former President Barack Obama.
8 May 2017 The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman says he will re-introduce legislation to limit how much former presidents receive from the federal government.
8 May 2017 A series of images purportedly showing Islamic writing, a sink, and a prayer room in President Obama's White House actually come from different and unrelated locations.
4 May 2017 A photograph showing an airplane pierced with dozens of wooden arrows is frequently circulated with fabricated backstories.
25 April 2017 A fake news site used an unrelated picture to claim a search warrant was executed at the home of former U.S. President Barack Obama.
17 April 2017 Reports that the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision about the teaching of Islam in public schools are fake news.
17 April 2017 A video clip of the First Family celebrating Easter at the White House appears to show Melania subtly cue her husband to put his hand over his heart during the playing of the national anthem.
15 April 2017 Department of State employee Candace Claiborne was arrested and charged in connection with her improperly receiving gifts from Chinese agents.
7 April 2017 A fake news item claimed President Obama failed to tip a prominent Chicago businessman filling in as a waiter at Lawry's.
30 March 2017 Evelyn Farkas' 2 March 2017 MSNBC interview was decoupled from its context involving a 1 March 2017 article about efforts to preserve Obama-era intelligence.
22 March 2017 Partisans debate who deserves credit for the $100 million grant awarded by the EPA to Michigan for water infrastructure upgrades in Flint.
21 March 2017 Independent Journal Review suspended three staff members, including chief content officer Benny Johnson, for suggesting that Obama may have interfered in a Hawaii judge's ruling on the Trump travel ban.
Updated Reports about President Obama's placement of a hubristic statue in the Oval Office are fake news.
13 March 2017 Reports that a man named Ezekiel Wilekenmeyer Williams filed a lawsuit claiming that he was the biological father of the Malia and Sasha Obama are fake news.
10 March 2017 Malik Obama reposted a scan of a long-debunked forged document supposedly proving that Barack Obama was born in Mombasa, Kenya.
10 March 2017 Reports that President Obama was evicted from his "mansion" in Washington, D.C., because he trashed the place are fake news.
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