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<p>It was supposed to be a provocative but authentic opinion piece: a young Latinx immigrant to Ireland warning the fair-skinned that using fake-tan products is racist.</p>
<p>But it turned out the tans aren’t the only things that were fake.</p>
<p><em>The Irish Times,</em> a respected 164-year-old newspaper, has admitted it was duped by the author, and the editor is apologizing to readers.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/irish-times-admits-op-ed-about-racist-fake-tans-by-adriana-acosta-cortez-was-ai-hoax">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html --> Wikimedia Commons
It was supposed to be a provocative but authentic opinion piece: a young Latinx immigrant to Ireland warning the fair-skinned that using fake-tan products is racist.
But it turned out the tans aren’t the only things that were fake.
The Irish Times, a respected 164-year-old newspaper, has admitted it was duped by the author, and the editor is apologizing to readers.