Fans of country singer Jason Aldean have voiced their frustration after CMT pulled his “Try That in a Small Town” music video from rotation.
CMT didn’t say why it had stopped airing the video, but the move followed charges the video was racist and glorified lynching and violence, allegations Aldean has denied.
Some country singers have since shown their support for Aldean, but not every headline about supposed displays of solidarity is authentic.
“Hank Williams Jr resigns from CMT’s board of directors: ‘I support Jason Aldean,’” reads what looks like one news headline among several shared in a recent Facebook post.
It was flagged as part of Meta’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram.)
We found the headline on the website of The Dunning-Kruger Times, which publishes “parody, satire and tomfoolery,” according to its About Us page.
We found no evidence that Williams has made such a show of support for Aldean. No such statement appears on his Facebook, Instagram or Twitter pages, and we found no news stories corroborating the claim.
We rate claims that it’s authentic False.