Reporter Digs Up ‘Racist’ Posts From Man Who Helps Save Sick Kids

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A feel-good human interest story devolved into a referendum on cancel culture after a reporter dug into a news subject’s “offensive” social media history – and then found himself on the receiving end of the same treatment.

Carson King, 24, became an “Iowa Legend” after he donated the $1 million he raised through a serendipitous cameo on ESPN to the University of Iowa’s Stead Children’s Hospital, the Des Moines Register reported.

Last weekend, ESPN “College GameDay” cameras caught King in the crowd holding up a sign asking for beer money through Venmo donations. His stunt went viral and the money began to pour in

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