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Contents:
- FACT CHECK: HAS FORD ROLLED OUT AN LGBT 'VERY GAY RAPTOR' TCK?
- AMID THE BUD LIGHT-DYLAN MULVANEY BACKLASH, FORD’S ‘VERY GAY’ TCKS HAVE RURFACED
FACT CHECK: HAS FORD ROLLED OUT AN LGBT 'VERY GAY RAPTOR' TCK?
Is the "Very Gay Raptor" a social media hoax or a real thg om Ford Motor Co.? Here's the unsettlg answer. * new gay ford truck *
Rters Fact Check has bunked different onle claims targetg the pany followg the partnership (here).The Ford mpaign, however, was shared June 2022, aligng wh Pri month (here).A spokperson for Ford said an email to Rters, “The vio is a year old and was created and ed by the Ford team Europe for a specific purpose – to make somethg posive out of a negative onle ment that a lor of our new Ranger Raptor pickup was ‘very gay.’”A prs release regardg the vehicle and the mpaign n be seen on the pany’s webse (here).VERDICTMisptned. Ford did not release a new “Very Gay Raptor” ad mpaign 2023; the onle vio dat to 2022.This article was produced by the Rters Fact Check team.
It looks like the Ford executiv who uld have stopped their brand om beg the “Bud Light of Tcks” had already done the ed a year ago, when they ran the “Very Gay Raptor” — y, that is s real name — at a major motorsports event.
The ad featur the Worlds Strongt Men to nvce you how tough the new “Very Gay Raptor” really is!
AMID THE BUD LIGHT-DYLAN MULVANEY BACKLASH, FORD’S ‘VERY GAY’ TCKS HAVE RURFACED
The ad shared by London featur Rob Kearney, the first openly gay petor the World’s Strongt Man petn, talkg up the allyship he found the event. Others also recently posted promotnal vios of the “Very Gay Raptor, ” a rabow flag-becked versn of the $56, 000-pl tw-turbo performance tck:.
The only thg that’s wrong about the statements is that the “Very Gay Raptor” isn’t somethg new.