A number of social media users and political advocacy groups started sharing a story on 21st November 2016 published by Huffington Post on 18th May 2016. The story contains a headline “House Passes Bill that Lets Government Contractors Fire People for Being LGBT”. Most of them posted it as evidence that the selection of Donald Trump as the U.S president will start a new era of rising intolerance. But, it is not the real case because the website “Huffington Post” reported correctly that the House has passed the National Defense Authorization Act in the month of May 2016 with a handsome difference of 277 against 147, with the alteration in question generated by a Republican Steve Russell from Oklahoma.
The Washington D.C office of Democratic Republican Eleanor Holmes issued a statement that is still standing in the House and Senate to accommodate differences regarding the bill. It again circulated in the last week of October 2016 at the time when the U.S President Barak Obama threatened to veto the supposed bill. It wasn’t mentioned that why Obama threatened to veto the House bill and issued a huge list of various reasons. The press secretary of the House, Josh Earnest said that he can’t point out a single item such as the provision of LGBT a ground reason for veto. But, it is true that House passed the bill and it was being characterized imperfectly on social media network, and making it an issue regarding the victory of Trump on 8th November 2016.