Yahoo News Says Barack Obama Born in Kenya

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U.S. President Barack Obama born in Kenya? Yahoo News made that mistake in a recent article.

According to Mediaite, in a June 21 article, Yahoo News reported that Obama wouldn’t “be stopping at the country of his birth” in Africa.  Obama was born in Hawaii.

Yahoo News has since published a correction on the article, but Huffington Post published a screenshot of the inaccurate version of the article (below):

(Credit: Yahoo News via HuffPo, screenshot)

 

The correction reads:

“Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly identified the president’s birthplace.”

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Yahoo News Says Barack Obama Born in Kenya

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