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Boston Police Responding to Another Bomb Threat At Children's Hospital: Report Boston Police Responding to Another Bomb Threat At Children's Hospital: Report
Boston Police Responding to Another Bomb Threat At Children's Hospital: Report The Boston Children's Hospital has received another bomb threat — the second one in two weeks.  NECN reported that someone called in the threat on just after 11:30 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 9. Police were at the Longwood Avenue hospital investigating the report. Officials have not released any further details about the threat.  Someone phoned in a bomb threat on Aug. 30, which forced police to lockdown the facility as bomb-sniffing dogs and explosive technicians scoured the building. It was a hoax.  Boston Children's Hospital has been under attack recently because of an online m…

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by Josh Lanier
News
Boston Children's Hospital Attacked Over Misleading Video On Transgender Surgery: Fact Checkers Boston Children's Hospital Attacked Over Misleading Video On Transgender Surgery: Fact Checkers
Boston Children's Hospital Attacked Over Misleading Video On Transgender Surgery: Fact Checkers For the past several days, right-wing social media accounts have attacked the Boston Children's Hospital after a misleading video led viewers to believe doctors there perform hysterectomies on children as part of gender reassignment surgery. A fact-checking website says this claim is false, but the world-renowned hospital and its doctors are still under attack online.  On Aug. 11, the popular right-wing social media account Libs of TikTok tweeted a video from a The Children's Hospital video that features a doctor discussing the removal of female sexual organs as part of sexual-reassignment s…

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by Josh Lanier