Fake Newspaper Clip About Buttigieg Circulates on Social Media

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A fabricated newspaper clipping is circulating online claiming a teenage Pete Buttigieg was arrested in the late 1990s for killing dogs. The Twitter user who created the bogus story — and the newspaper that allegedly published it — say the clipping is a fake.

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A fake newspaper clipping with a photo of a very young Pete Buttigieg, the presidential candidate and former mayor South Bend, Indiana, is circulating online, reporting that Buttigieg was arrested in 1998 for killing five dogs. The creator of the...