Did Chick-fil-A institute new policies that have people thinking they should boycott the fast-food chain? No, that's not true: There are no recent newsworthy Chick-fil-A policies that have resulted in calls for a boycott. The blog article linked in a social media post doesn't mention any specific policies or boycott. This post falls squarely into the definition of clickbait -- an enticing or misleading headline that draws people to click on a link that usually fails to deliver what was promised.
The claim appeared in many posts, for example this one (archived here) where it was published by the Facebook page Wesley Bailey on December 2, 2024. The post was captioned:
No way this is happening...I'm thinking of boycott too!! 😳😳 Look what they're doing, check the comment 👇
The text of the meme reads:
Chick-fil-A's New Policies Have People Thinking For Boycott!!
This is what the post looked like on Facebook at the time of writing:
(Source: Facebook screenshot taken on Tue Dec 3 17:09:46 2024 UTC)
Under the meme picture in the comments (pictured above), the Facebook page Wesley Bailey posted a link to lifepress.info (archived here). The article is 90 words long and it only covers the closure of the original Chick-fil-A restaurant located at the Greenbriar Mall in Atlanta (pictured below). This Georgia location really did close after 56 years -- on May 20, 2023, as was reported at the time by Today.com (archived here).
There is no reporting in the lifepress.info article on any new Chick-fil-A company policies sparking ideas of a boycott, nor does an advanced Google search (archived here) produce relevant results from the past month. The Chick-fil-A website's press room (archived here) does not contain any announcements which could be considered 'new policies'.
(Source: lifepress.info screenshot taken on Tue Dec 03 17:18:12 2024 UTC)
At the time of writing, a fact check on this same claim from PolitiFact was returned in that Google search.
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