Megan Rapinoe Disqualified from Soccer Corridor of Fame?

On June 13, 2024, a Fb web page known as America – Love It Or Go away It published a post claiming former U.S. soccer participant Megan Rapinoe was disqualified from the “Professional Soccer Corridor of Fame.”

The publish quoted an unnamed supply as saying: “Inducteed [sic] needs to be constructive position fashions. Ms. Rapinoe has an extended method to go.” It added that Rapinoe had knelt for the nationwide anthem and pledged to depart the nation if she didn’t “get her method.”

An analogous declare appeared on X and elsewhere on Fb in March 2024, and the identical web page produced comparable posts in December 2023 and April 2024.

Fb customers replying to the June 2024 publish appeared to imagine the declare was true, with one writing: “She won’t be missed when she leaves.”

One other commented: “Good bye! America is a good nation! Just a few individuals want to depart…discover a nation you’re keen on higher! Bye bye.”

Nonetheless, this merchandise was not a factual recounting of real-life occasions. It was posted by a Facebook account that described its output as being satirical in nature, as follows:

A subsidiary of the America’s Final Line of Protection community of trollery. Nothing on this web page is actual.

It additionally labeled its Fb web page as “Satire/parody,” and it mentioned the account was run by a person branded “Busta Troll.”

America’s Final Line of Protection, which was talked about by the account, likewise described its content material as satirical.

ALIOLI even commented on the Rapinoe publish, saying the previous soccer participant “could not care much less about being inducted into the fictional ALLOD Multiverse model of the Professional Soccer Corridor of Fame… since she’ll be in the actual one.”

Snopes discovered no evidence Rapinoe had been disqualified from any corridor of fame, and likewise no news outlets reported such information. Moreover, the foremost soccer corridor of fame within the U.S. is called the National Soccer Hall of Fame, not the Professional Soccer Corridor of Fame.

We addressed one other satirical publish by the identical Fb web page on June 13, 2024, when the web page claimed TV chef Gordon Ramsay resigned as a spokesman for Tyson Meals as a result of he didn’t wish to endorse the corporate utilizing bugs of their meals.

For background, right here is why we generally write about satire/humor.

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