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On January 20th, the day of President Trump's inauguration, a post spread across Facebook.

It read, breaking.

ICE is allegedly offering $750 per illegal immigrant that you turn in through their tip form.

Cash in, folks.

This post was one of many that I saw across Facebook and across Instagram, where people were saying that, yeah, ICE was now offering

a cash bounty if you turned in undocumented people. That's reporter Craig Silverman. He covers

technology for ProPublica.

And the most important thing to know about this is that it's not true.

So ICE does have a tip line, does encourage people to send reports in, but they did actually

post themselves on Instagram and told several fact checkers that we do not offer cash bonuses.

But that still was a claim that spread fairly widely across some of these social networks.

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