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Over the weekend, this fake sign made its way around the Twitterverse. It's an old online hoax that has found new legs as it gets passed around with the hashtag #seriouslymcdonalds. Chalk up another PR foible for the fast-food empire.
Claiming that McDonald's is charging African-American customers an extra $1.50 as an "insurance measure due in part to a recent string of robberies," the image first appeared on the Internet's notorious 4chan bulletin board last June. But for reasons unknown, the pic appears to be stirring controversy once again.
