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The Associated Press removes a fact-check claiming JD Vance has not had sex with a couch

Correction: he didn’t write about having sex with a couch.

The fact-check references a few joke social media posts that have been circulating that claim the Republican vice presidential nominee wrote in his book Hillbilly Elegy about having sex with a couch. Another post: “Can’t say for sure but he might be the first VP pick to have admitted in a ny times bestseller to fucking an inside-out latex glove shoved between two couch cushions (vance, hillbilly elegy, pp. News reports (and fact-checks specifically) are often worded in a way that carefully threads a needle — there’s a difference between saying something definitively didn’t happen versus saying there’s no evidence of it.

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