A May 22 Twitter post (direct link, archived link) features a video of a Florida public school staff member alongside cardboard boxes full of books.
“A TikToker who works in a Florida school exposes the books being removed by the state for being ‘inappropriate,’” reads the text in the post. “The banned books cover topics such as hate groups, Judaism, the Holocaust, Pocahontas, African Americans in aviation, and more. This needs to go viral.”
The post has been shared more than 200 times on Facebook, according to the social media analytics tool CrowdTangle. The tweet was retweeted more than 13,000 times. Other versions of the post continue to circulate on Twitter.
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Spokespeople for Broward County Public Schools and the Florida Department of Education confirmed the books in the video were being inventoried and removed due to their age – not for being "inappropriate."
The claim stems from a since-deleted TikTok video posted by a staff member at McNicol Middle School in Hollywood, Florida.
But the books were not removed by the state after being deemed “inappropriate” as the employee claimed, according to John Sullivan, chief communications and legislative affairs officer for Broward County Public Schools.
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