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Search results for "School use AI to remove 200 books from shelves including Orwell's 1984 and Twilight"

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Pink stated on November 13, 2023 in an X post:
These 13 books “have been banned from schools in Florida.”
By Jeff Cercone• November 20, 2023
X posts stated on February 01, 2022 in a post:
"Books banned in Texas include 1984, Maus, and The Handmaid's Tale, but not Mein Kampf."
By Nusaiba Mizan• February 14, 2022
Instagram posts stated on May 22, 2023 in a post:
Video shows boxes of books removed from a middle school library that were “banned by the DeSantis regime in Florida.”
By Gabrielle Settles• June 1, 2023
Facebook posts stated on June 12, 2023 in a Facebook post:
Photos show Target is pushing "evil agenda" on kids.
By Jeff Cercone• July 18, 2023
Viral image stated on August 21, 2022 in a tweet:
Image shows "Florida's anti-woke banned book list."
By Yacob Reyes• August 24, 2022
X posts stated on September 11, 2025 in an X post:
A book on Amazon titled “The Shooting of Charlie Kirk” with a Sept. 9 publication date is evidence the event was staged.
By Samantha Putterman• September 12, 2025
Facebook posts stated on May 28, 2023 in Facebook posts:
Photos show Target selling children’s clothing with satanic imagery.
By Loreben Tuquero• June 6, 2023
Newt Gingrich stated on June 28, 2015 in comments on NBC's "Meet the Press":
Says Amazon has removed "an educational game about Gettysburg." 
By Anna Bruzgulis• June 30, 2015
Instagram posts stated on September 18, 2023 in an Instagram post:
Video shows Republican Missouri state senators using flamethrowers to burn books.
By Sara Swann• September 21, 2023
Facebook posts stated on December 31, 2021 in a video on Facebook:
Walgreens refrigerators are scanning shoppers’ hands and foreheads for “the mark of the beast,” and that “if you don’t have the mark later on, you won’t be able to buy.”
By Madison Czopek• January 11, 2022
Chain email stated on August 31, 2008 in a chain e-mail:
"While Sarah was Mayor of Wasilla she tried to fire our highly respected City Librarian because the Librarian refused to consider removing from the library some books that Sarah wanted removed."
By Robert Farley• September 9, 2008
Fox News Channel stated on July 05, 2023 in a chyron:
Gender Queer on NEA Summer Reading List for Kids.
By Sofia Bliss-Carrascosa• July 11, 2023
Donald Trump stated on July 21, 2015 in a campaign rally in South Carolina:
The five Guantanamo detainees swapped for Bowe Bergdahl "are right now back on the battlefield."
By Lauren Carroll• July 23, 2015
Facebook posts stated on July 19, 2023 in a Facebook reel:
Photos show children wearing satanic clothing and participating in a satanic club.
By Sara Swann• July 21, 2023
Musclecarusa.info stated on December 18, 2017 in a headline:
"World’s most popular candy to be removed from shelves by December 2017."
By Amy Sherman• January 2, 2018
North Carolina Republican Party stated on February 24, 2023 in an email:
“The left is determined to erase Mount Rushmore from our history books.”
By Paul Specht• March 14, 2023
Facebook posts stated on August 22, 2023 in a Facebook post:
Photos are evidence of “satanism in public schools.”
By Loreben Tuquero• September 1, 2023
Tim Walz stated on August 06, 2024 in a speech:
JD Vance “literally wrote the foreword for the architect of the Project 2025 agenda."
By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu• August 14, 2024
Facebook posts stated on June 10, 2023 in a Facebook post:
World Economic Forum “calls for AI to rewrite Bible, create ‘religions that are actually correct’”
By Sara Swann• June 23, 2023
Ted Deutch stated on February 21, 2018 in a CNN town hall:
"Mass shootings went up 200 percent in the decade after the assault weapons ban expired."
By Miriam Valverde• February 23, 2018

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