CLAIM: KitchenAid has stopped offering its famous stand mixers and other familiar appliances at Target stores following backlash over the retailer’s support of the LGBTQ+ community.
AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. The claims originated from a satirical news website that labels its content as “fiction.” KitchenAid products are still for sale on Target’s online store.
THE FACTS: Social media users are claiming Target is facing another setback following the ongoing backlash over its seasonal Pride month collection.
Many are sharing posts that include the screenshot of a headline that reads: “American Icon KitchenAid Pulls Its Products From Target: ‘We Have Different Values’.”
“In another serious blow to the Target Corporation, KitchenAid Appliances has decided to pull its stock from the shelves and discontinue doing business there,” wrote a Twitter user in a widely shared post.
But the headline comes from an article on the Dunning-Kruger-Times, a website that labels itself as satire and whose content is often mistaken as real.
“Dunning-Kruger-Times.com is a subsidiary of the ‘America’s Last Line of Defense’ network of parody, satire, and tomfoolery,” the “About Us” section of the website reads.
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