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Bush Hid The Facts – Notepad Conspiracy Claim
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What the fact-checkers found
Message claims that the strange result when a Windows Notepad file with the text “Bush hid the facts” is re-opened may represent a deliberate anti-Bush political statement by Microsoft.
Subject: political conspiracy?
hey this is really weird!!
open notepad
type “bush hid the facts” without quotation marks
don’t press “enter” save the file
close notepad
open the file again
what do you think?
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