These Facebook posts follow a familiar pattern, promising customers a payout from big-box stores for alleged company wrongdoing. But there’s no evidence to support their claims.
"Target is fined for defrauding customers," the
said."Victims get $500 store refunds. Answer 3 questions if you shopped at Target in the last 4 months."In January, for example, weanother post that claimed Walmart was giving some women a $500 grocery store credit as part of a discrimination settlement. Around the same time, posts started appearing promising women — who had supposedly been discriminated against by Lowe’s — cookware sets as a settlement.
Both companies told PolitiFact that these claims were baseless. A Target spokesperson we reached also told us this new post isn’t accurate, either. We found no news reports or other sources to contradict that. This post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our
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