It really happened: stories that a satirical site published as jokes are circulating as reports of real events
By The Conspiratory EditorsAugust 16, 2026
Where the evidence lands: ContradictedThat stories describing a special mark required to shop at New York City's government-run grocery stores, and a statue of the child-sacrifice deity Molech unveiled by Massachusetts Democrats outside the state Capitol, are accounts of things that genuinely occurred, rather than satirical articles that lost their labelling as they were reshared.
Contradicted. The claim rated here is narrow: that specific stories now circulating as news describe things that actually happened. They do not. The two August 2026 examples both came from The Babylon Bee, which describes itself on its own masthead as satire, and Snopes traced each to that origin. What makes this worth a case file rather than a shrug is that the satirist is not the one doing the deceiving. The jokes are labelled at source; the label is what falls off in transit. This is also not a partisan failing, and the research is unusually clear on the point: satire from the political right fools right-leaning readers and satire from the political left fools left-leaning ones, in each case when the joke flatters something the reader already suspects. This file rates the circulating claims, takes no position on any of the underlying policy disputes, and makes no accusation against any publisher, politician or reader.
Believed by: Readers across the political spectrum, in opposite directions depending on the target: Ohio State researchers found eight of 23 Babylon Bee falsehoods were confidently believed by at least 15 percent of Republican respondents, while roughly one in eight Democrats was certain of a claim that had originated with The Onion
A three-step ladder assembled itself over two days this week, and it is the clearest example yet of satire being laundered into a chain rather than a single false story. Step one is real: an executive order in late August directed that Lake Ontario be styled Lake America in US government publications during a dispute with Canada, and mapping services reflected the change. Step two is invented. On 30 August Lead Stories rated a claim that Fox News had reported Canada was blocking vessels through the Welland Canal if their paperwork used the new name; the network reported nothing of the kind. Step three, rated on 31 August, is a fabricated Trump post announcing a Melania Canal to bypass the Welland Canal, and Lead Stories traced it to a satire account. Look at what step three depends on. A bypass is only a story if a blockade exists, and the blockade was invented the day before by step two. So the satire was not written about the world; it was written about a fabrication, and when it escaped its account it carried that fabrication with it as an unstated premise. Anyone encountering the Melania Canal post cold would have to disprove two things to get clear, and only one of them announces itself as a claim. This is worth holding on to because the usual advice, check whether the source is a satire account, works on step three and does nothing about step two, which had no satirical origin and no joke in it. source →
The longest laundering chain this file has recorded, and it ends with a head of state credited as the author. Snopes rated False on 22 August the claim that President Emmanuel Macron had posted an image purporting to show Jeffrey Epstein kissing the US first lady. The image is fabricated and Macron posted nothing of the kind: a search of his verified public accounts returned no such post, and French fact-checkers established the same when the picture first surfaced in April. Its actual origin is a 5 February post by a US political satire account on Facebook, under the name Tom Adelsbach, which carried the labels digitally altered and parody, reportedly added after Spanish-speaking users began sharing it as authentic. What happened next is the part worth recording. By 3 April a Facebook account appearing to belong to a journalist had reposted it with an Arabic caption asserting that Macron was the one who published it, and a Spanish-language TikTok then cited that journalist as its source. Every other entry above describes a label coming off in transit. This one shows what fills the space afterwards. Stripped of its parody tag, the image needed an author, and each retelling supplied a more authoritative one than the last: an anonymous joke account, then a named reporter, then the President of France. The escalation runs consistently upward, toward whoever the next audience would find hardest to dismiss, and it took six and a half months and four languages to get there. source →
A seventh instance, and the first where the satire had a real policy anchor holding it up. Snopes rated Originated as Satire on 20 August a graphic circulating since 16 August on X, Facebook and Instagram, styled as a breaking-news chyron over an image of a tall ship and reading that the president had demanded all Navy vessels be equipped with sails, with cannons under consideration. What made it land is the timing. On 13 August a presidential memorandum genuinely did order the Navy back to steam catapults for launching aircraft from carriers, a real instruction to revert to older technology. The joke was an escalation along an axis that had just been established as real, which is a different thing from a joke invented out of nothing, and it is why readers who knew about the memorandum were the most likely to believe it. Note also what this one lacks. The running theme in the entries above is a label that gets stripped, ignored, or hidden; this graphic never carried a publisher name at all. There was no masthead to lose, only the visual grammar of a news broadcast, which turns out to be sufficient on its own. source →
A sixth instance, and the first that puts a name on the source. Lead Stories reported on 18 August that a post circulating on X since 16 August, claiming the conservative influencer Nick Shirley had announced on Joe Rogan's podcast that he was assembling forensic experts to investigate a purported "Clinton body bags" list, is satire. Shirley has never appeared on the show, and searches of Google News and Yahoo News turned up no such report anywhere. The allegations bundled into the circulating text are not repeated here. What this entry adds to the record above is provenance rather than another lost label. The original came from a Facebook page in the America's Last Line of Defense network, run by the self-described liberal troll Christopher Blair, whose pages carry the line "Nothing on this page is real" in the bio; the same network produced the Chelsea Clinton fabrication logged two days ago. So the pipeline this file describes is not diffuse. At least two of the six cases here trace to one operation whose stated purpose is to bait a specific audience into sharing things it has not read. The label question also escalated a step: Lead Stories circled two separate instances of that disclaimer visible inside the shared image, and it travelled regardless. One tag ignored is a reader skimming. Two, on the same picture, is a reader who was never going to look. source →
A fifth instance in five days, and the first with a long fuse. Snopes rated Originated as Satire a lengthy post claiming that a Secret Service agent who had served seven presidents gave an account of what President Trump is like behind the scenes, complete with a supposed stash of internal memos. The specific allegations are crude and are not repeated here; what matters is that no agent said any of it and the piece is a work of comedy. Two features distinguish it from the others recorded above. The delay is the striking one: the satirical original is dated 17 November 2025 and the post that carried it into circulation appeared on 12 August 2026, nine months later, before spreading onward to Instagram and Threads. Satire does not decay, and a joke can sit dormant for the better part of a year and then travel as news the moment somebody screenshots it into a new context. The second is that the image itself displayed the publisher's name and the original date, both plainly visible, and it spread anyway. That is now the third distinct way a label has failed inside a week: stripped at a platform boundary, printed in the image and ignored, and here printed in the image alongside a date that would have answered the question by itself. The label keeps being present. Nobody is reading it. source →
Later the same day, a stronger version of the same finding. Lead Stories reported on a Facebook post of 16 August claiming Chelsea Clinton had taken a plea deal from Scotland Yard, been fined 1.2 million pounds and been barred from charity boards. There is no such case; Lead Stories searched Google News and Yahoo News and found no matching report anywhere. What matters here is where the label was. The post came from the America - Love It Or Leave It page run by Christopher Blair, whose page description reads, in as many words, that nothing on the page is real, and the disclaimer was also printed into the bottom-left corner of the image itself. It still travelled. That is the mechanism this file describes taken to its limit: not a label on a masthead a reader might not visit, but a label inside the picture, and it survived neither the screenshot nor the reader. Note also the direction. Blair is a self-described liberal with a documented history of publishing fabricated content, and the audience this particular post was built to reach is not his own. Set beside the USS Abraham Lincoln item from this morning, which mocked the president and spread among his critics, today produced two satire-origin fabrications aimed in opposite political directions within hours of each other, both from the same fact-checker's desk. source →
The fourth instance in four days, and the first one that documents the mechanism this file has so far only asserted. Lead Stories reported on 17 August that there is no evidence President Trump ordered sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln to sign nondisclosure agreements before coming ashore, promising never to say anything negative, nasty or insufficiently beautiful about their deployment. The value here is the paper trail. The original went up on a Facebook page on 15 August with a satire disclaimer visible in the post itself, on an account whose profile describes it as political parody and sharp commentary. A Threads account reposted the text on 16 August without the disclaimer, and that is the version that travelled. Lead Stories archived both. So the claim that a joke loses its label in transit is no longer an inference from the fact that readers were fooled; there is a labelled original and an unlabelled copy, one platform apart, a day apart. Two further things are worth recording. The label failed at a platform boundary rather than through any edit to the joke, which suggests the disclaimer is attached to the venue and not to the text, and nothing carries it across. And this one cuts the other way politically from the two Babylon Bee items this file was built on: it mocks the president rather than his opponents, and was spread approvingly by an account attacking him. The file already says the pipeline is not partisan. This is the first entry that shows it rather than stating it. source →
A third instance arrived hours after this file was published, and it is a different species from the two it was built on. Boatos reported at 19:46 UTC on a message circulating in Brazil claiming that the keypads of the country's electronic voting machines contain microneedles that covertly inject vaccines into voters as they press the keys. Boatos answers it on the hardware: the machines are vote-collection devices made of electronic circuits and a rubber keypad, with no mechanical or hydraulic component and no reservoir capable of holding or delivering any liquid, and the keypad exists solely to enter a vote. What matters for this file is the provenance. Boatos reports the message was written as sarcasm by social media users, deploying the vaccine argument as political provocation, and that once stripped of context and forwarded through messaging apps it was read literally by some people. Note what is missing compared with the two August cases here: there is no publisher. The Babylon Bee items had an institutional label attached at source, which is why the useful question was how far each had travelled from it. An anonymous sarcastic post has no masthead to lose. Its only marker is tone, and tone is the first thing that dies in a forward, especially in a closed messaging app where nothing carries provenance and there is no comment thread to supply the wink. So the model this file opened with, a label that falls off in transit, is the narrower case. The wider one is that satire is sometimes marked only by register, and register does not survive being passed along at all. One further detail, recorded as Boatos characterises it rather than as a finding of intent: the sarcasm was aimed at discouraging political opponents from turning out to vote, which is a reminder that a joke read literally can have a payoff its literal reading delivers. The circulating text carries political abuse and is not reproduced here. source →
Built on the second of two Snopes checks in nine days, both tracing viral claims to the same satirical publisher. The 16 August item concerns a Molech statue said to have been unveiled outside the Massachusetts State Capitol and is rated Originated as Satire; the 7 August item concerns a special mark required to shop at New York City's planned government-run grocery stores and is rated Labeled Satire. The difference between those two ratings is the thing this file was built to record. source →
The full story
Two jokes that got out
On 7 August 2026, Snopes published a fact-check on posts claiming that New York City's planned government-run grocery stores would serve anyone carrying a special mark on the hand or forehead. The image doing the rounds showed a shopper marked 666, and the caption urged everyone to take part. Readers wrote in to ask whether it was true.
On 16 August, nine days later, Snopes published another, this time on claims that Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey had unveiled a statue of Molech, the deity the Old Testament associates with child sacrifice, outside the state Capitol. No such statue exists. As Snopes put it, an event like that outside a state Capitol would have been reported by the Associated Press and the Boston Globe, and there was nothing to find.
Both stories came from The Babylon Bee, which describes itself on its own masthead as a trusted source for Christian news satire. So on one reading there is no story here at all: a satirical site published satire, and some people misread it. That reading is too quick, and the rest of this file is about why.
The label was there. It came off in transit.
Start with the case for the defence, because it is strong. Nothing was concealed. The publisher says what it is at the top of its own page. The articles were not disguised as wire copy or attributed to a real newsroom. Anyone arriving at the source encountered the source.
Snopes keeps two separate ratings that map the difference, and the pair of August items landed on either side of the line. The grocery-store story was rated Labeled Satire: the framing was still attached when it was checked. The Molech story was rated Originated as Satire: it had come from satire, but the version in circulation no longer carried that with it.
That distinction is the whole mechanism. Somewhere between publication and the screenshot in a group chat, the masthead is cropped, the byline goes, the site name goes, and what is left is a headline in a serif font making a claim about the government. The joke did not deceive anybody. The reshare did, and usually without meaning to.
Why these two travelled and most jokes do not
The Bee publishes constantly. Almost none of it ends up at a fact-checker. So the useful question is not why satire exists but what these two had that the rest did not, and read side by side they answer it.
Each was built on a live dispute that was already running. New York City is genuinely planning government-run grocery stores, projected to open in late 2027, and there had been actual reporting on whether they would require identification. Massachusetts genuinely did pass legislation on abortion after 24 weeks based on a physician's professional medical judgment, and how to characterise that law was contested enough that Snopes ran a separate check on it on 11 August, five days before the statue story.
So the reader meeting the joke has already agreed to most of it. The city is opening municipal groceries; the state did change its abortion law. Only the last step is invented, and it arrives after the reader has said yes several times.
Then there is the register both jokes reach for. Each converts an argument about governance into one about good and evil: the mark of the beast in one case, a child-sacrifice deity in the other. A claim in that key is barely arguable, which is part of why it moves. You can dispute a grocery procurement policy. It is harder to know what to say to a statue of Molech.
The measurements, and who they catch
The temptation here is to make this a story about one political tribe being gullible. The research does not support that, and it is worth being precise about what it does support.
Researchers at Ohio State University ran a six-month study in which, every two weeks, they collected ten of the most widely shared false political stories on social media and asked a representative sample of more than 800 Americans whether each was true. By the end they had measured beliefs about 120 widely shared falsehoods. They were not looking for satire. Satire kept turning up: Babylon Bee stories were among the most-shared inaccurate content in almost every wave, and one survey alone carried Bee articles relating to five different falsehoods.
Now the symmetry. Of 23 falsehoods traced to The Babylon Bee, eight were confidently believed by at least 15 percent of Republican respondents. Of nine traced to The Onion, close to one in eight Democrats was certain of a fabricated claim about a White House counselor. Earlier work on The Colbert Report found conservative viewers reading a satirical persona as a sincere one.
The pattern is not partisan, it is directional. Each audience is least able to spot the joke aimed at the people it already distrusts. That is an uncomfortable finding for everybody, which is a decent sign it is a real one.
Spotting a joke is harder than spotting a lie
There is a reason this keeps happening to people who are not careless. Detecting a straightforward fabrication needs one thing: a check of whether the event occurred. Detecting satire needs three, and all at once.
You have to know the issue being satirised. You have to know what ordinary political rhetoric on that issue sounds like. And you have to notice the gap between that baseline and what you are reading. Miss any one and the sentence reads perfectly literally. Someone who has not followed the New York grocery proposal closely has no baseline against which the mark on the hand registers as absurd rather than alarming.
The current era makes the baseline unusually slippery too. When real politics is loud and strange, the distance between genuine rhetoric and parody narrows, and the exaggeration that makes a joke legible has less room to work in.
None of which requires thinking less of the people who share these. A reader who believes a state Capitol unveiled a statue to a child-sacrifice god is not being stupid. They are applying a reasonable heuristic, that a story formatted as news is usually news, to a case built to defeat it.
What to do with a story that sounds like the other side
So: the statue does not exist, the mark is not required, and neither claim describes anything that happened. On the narrow question this file rates, that is the end of it.
The part worth carrying away is about the shape rather than these two items. Both jokes worked by getting a reader to nod several times before asking them to swallow anything, and the nods were all to true things: a city planning municipal groceries, a state passing a contested abortion law. The invention came last, when agreement was already established. That is a far more effective structure than an outright fabrication, and it is not unique to satire.
Which suggests a practical test that costs nothing, and it is not “is this plausible?” Plausibility is what the format is manufacturing. It is: where did this come from? Both August stories resolve in one click, because neither publisher was hiding. The Molech item reached Snopes with that click already unavailable to most of the people reading it, which is why it earned the rating it did.
One last note on fairness, since this file names a publisher and two politicians. The Babylon Bee did nothing but publish labelled satire, which it is entitled to do. The policies underneath are disputed and this file takes no side on them. And the readers who were fooled were not uniquely credulous: the same research shows the other side falling for The Onion just as readily, whenever the joke happens to point the way they were already looking.
What's still unexplained
- Snopes now distinguishes Labeled Satire from Originated as Satire, which is a useful measure of how far a joke has drifted from its source. Nobody appears to be tracking how quickly that drift happens, or which features make a satirical item shed its labelling fastest.
- The two August 2026 items both translated a policy dispute into end-times imagery. Is that genre disproportionately likely to escape its frame, or is it simply the register this particular publisher writes in? One publisher and two instances cannot answer that.
- The Ohio State survey work is now several years old and predates both generative image tools and the current platform mix. Whether the rates it measured have risen, fallen or merely moved to different platforms is not something we could establish from published research.
- There is a genuine tension here that this file does not pretend to resolve. Satire that announces itself too loudly stops being funny, and satire that does not announce itself gets mistaken for reporting. Where the responsibility sits between the writer, the platform and the resharer is contested, and no fact-check settles it.
Point by point
The claim: Massachusetts Democrats unveiled a statue of Molech outside the state Capitol.
What the record shows: It did not happen. Snopes searched for any credible reporting and found none, making the point that an event of that kind outside a state Capitol would have been covered by the Associated Press and the Boston Globe, and no such coverage exists. The story came from The Babylon Bee. What is on the record is the thing underneath it: Governor Maura Healey signed legislation concerning abortion after 24 weeks of pregnancy based on a physician's professional medical judgment, and how to characterise that law is a live political argument that Snopes addressed separately on 11 August. This file rates the statue claim and takes no view on the legislation.
The claim: New York City's government-run grocery stores will require a special mark on the hand or forehead.
What the record shows: Also satire, rated Labeled Satire by Snopes on 7 August 2026. The circulating post carried the line that everyone was strongly urged to participate and an image of a shopper marked 666, the number conventionally associated with the Antichrist. Snopes notes the city-run stores are projected to open in late 2027 and that reporting had discussed whether they would require identification, which is the ordinary policy question the joke was built on top of. Readers wrote to Snopes having taken it at face value.
The claim: If people believed it, the satirical site must have been trying to deceive them.
What the record shows: This one does not hold, and the file is careful about it. The Babylon Bee describes itself as satire on its own masthead, and Snopes maintains two distinct ratings that turn on this very point: Labeled Satire, where the framing survived, and Originated as Satire, where it did not. The 7 August item drew the first and the 16 August item the second. Deception, where it occurs, is introduced downstream by resharing that strips the source, not by the original publication.
The claim: Only credulous partisans on the other side fall for satire.
What the record shows: The research says otherwise, and says it symmetrically. In the Ohio State study, eight of 23 Babylon Bee falsehoods were confidently believed by at least 15 percent of Republican respondents; of the nine drawn from The Onion, nearly one in eight Democrats was certain of a fabricated claim about a White House counselor. Earlier work found conservative viewers reading Stephen Colbert's satirical persona as sincere. The variable is not party but alignment: a joke is hardest to see as a joke when it confirms what you already suspect.
The claim: These are isolated slips that say nothing about how information moves.
What the record shows: The measurement suggests otherwise. The Ohio State team was not hunting for satire; they simply collected the ten most-shared false political stories every fortnight for six months, and Babylon Bee material turned up among the most-shared inaccurate content in almost every wave, with five separate Bee-derived falsehoods in a single survey. That is satire appearing routinely in a sample selected purely by how widely something spread.
Timeline
- 1988The Onion begins publishing in Madison, Wisconsin. Over the following decades its stories are repeatedly reproduced as fact, sometimes by state media outlets abroad, and it becomes misunderstood often enough that a large online community forms around collecting the examples.
- 2000sResearchers studying The Colbert Report find that conservative viewers regularly read Stephen Colbert's satirical pundit character as a sincere statement of his politics. The finding establishes early that the failure is not simple inattention: people can watch satire closely and still take it literally when it aligns with what they expect.
- 2016The Babylon Bee launches, describing itself on its own masthead as a trusted source for Christian news satire. Its format closely imitates the visual grammar of a news site, which is standard for the genre and is part of the joke.
- 2019Ohio State researchers publish results from a six-month study. Every two weeks they identified ten of the most-shared false political stories on social media and asked a representative sample of more than 800 Americans whether each was true, measuring beliefs about 120 widely shared falsehoods in all. Babylon Bee stories appear among the most-shared inaccurate content in almost every wave; one survey alone carried Bee articles relating to five separate falsehoods.
- 2019The same study records the symmetry that keeps this from being a story about one side. Of 23 falsehoods originating with The Babylon Bee, eight were confidently believed by at least 15 percent of Republican respondents. Of nine originating with The Onion, almost one in eight Democrats was certain that a White House counselor had questioned the value of the rule of law.
- 2026-08-07Snopes publishes a check on posts claiming New York City's government-run grocery stores would allow anyone to shop provided they carried a special mark on the hand or forehead, the accompanying image showing a shopper marked 666. Snopes rates it Labeled Satire, notes that the city-run stores are projected to open in late 2027, and records that some readers took the claim as true and wrote in to ask.
- 2026-08-11Separately, Snopes examines the contested characterisation of a Massachusetts law as legalising abortion until birth. This entry matters to the sequence rather than to the joke: it establishes that a genuine and heavily disputed policy argument was already running when the satirical version arrived.
- 2026-08-16Snopes publishes a check on claims that Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey unveiled a statue of Molech outside the state Capitol, following her signing of legislation on abortion after 24 weeks based on a physician's professional medical judgment. No reputable outlet reported any such statue. Snopes traces the story to The Babylon Bee and rates it Originated as Satire, a different category from the 7 August item and a telling one: this version had travelled far enough from its source that the label was no longer attached.
Contradicted. The claim rated here is narrow: that specific stories now circulating as news describe things that actually happened. They do not. The two August 2026 examples both came from The Babylon Bee, which describes itself on its own masthead as satire, and Snopes traced each to that origin. What makes this worth a case file rather than a shrug is that the satirist is not the one doing the deceiving. The jokes are labelled at source; the label is what falls off in transit. This is also not a partisan failing, and the research is unusually clear on the point: satire from the political right fools right-leaning readers and satire from the political left fools left-leaning ones, in each case when the joke flatters something the reader already suspects. This file rates the circulating claims, takes no position on any of the underlying policy disputes, and makes no accusation against any publisher, politician or reader.
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Common questions
Is Satire read as news true?
Contradicted. The claim rated here is narrow: that specific stories now circulating as news describe things that actually happened. They do not. The two August 2026 examples both came from The Babylon Bee, which describes itself on its own masthead as satire, and Snopes traced each to that origin. What makes this worth a case file rather than a shrug is that the satirist is not the one doing the deceiving. The jokes are labelled at source; the label is what falls off in transit. This is also not a partisan failing, and the research is unusually clear on the point: satire from the political right fools right-leaning readers and satire from the political left fools left-leaning ones, in each case when the joke flatters something the reader already suspects. This file rates the circulating claims, takes no position on any of the underlying policy disputes, and makes no accusation against any publisher, politician or reader.
What is Satire read as news?
In August 2026 two stories spread as news that had begun life as jokes. One said New York City's planned government-run grocery stores would serve anyone carrying a special mark on the hand or forehead, illustrated with the number 666. The other said Massachusetts Democrats had unveiled a statue of Molech, the deity the Bible associates…
What does the evidence show?
It did not happen. Snopes searched for any credible reporting and found none, making the point that an event of that kind outside a state Capitol would have been covered by the Associated Press and the Boston Globe, and no such coverage exists. The story came from The Babylon Bee. What is on the record is the thing underneath it: Governo…
Why do people believe it?
The format is borrowed on purpose. Satirical sites imitate the layout, headline rhythm and house tone of news publications, because that imitation is the joke. Strip the masthead by screenshotting a headline, and what remains looks exactly like reporting.
What is still unresolved?
Snopes now distinguishes Labeled Satire from Originated as Satire, which is a useful measure of how far a joke has drifted from its source. Nobody appears to be tracking how quickly that drift happens, or which features make a satirical item shed its labelling fastest.
Sources
- 1.Did Secret Service agent share private details about how Trump acts in presidential limousine?, Snopes (2026)
- 2.Fact Check: FAKE Report Says Chelsea Clinton Made Plea Deal With Scotland Yard, Was Fined £1.2 Million, Lead Stories (2026)
- 3.Fact Check: NO Evidence Trump Ordered Sailors Aboard USS Abraham Lincoln To Sign NDAs Before Coming Ashore, Lead Stories (2026)
- 4.Story claiming electronic voting machines will have needles to secretly vaccinate voters is false, Boatos.org (2026)
- 5.Massachusetts Democrats didn't unveil Molech statue at state Capitol, despite claims, Snopes (2026)
- 6.Shoppers at Mamdani's NYC-run grocery stores won't need 'special mark' on hand or forehead, Snopes (2026)
- 7.Making sense of claim Massachusetts legalized 'abortion until birth', Snopes (2026)
- 8.Too many people think satirical news is real, The Conversation (2019)
- 9.Too many people think satirical news is real, Ohio State University (2019)
- 10.Study: Babylon Bee's satire gets shared by people who think it's real, Christianity Today (2019)
- 11.The Babylon Bee, The Babylon Bee (2026)
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