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Posts claimed the site is "operated by hostile entities seeking to identify and harm Jewish and Israeli families."

"They used to have a cage in the back of the store and they used to sell monkeys as pets," one social media post claimed. "Anyone else remember this?"

Senior reporter Jordan Liles dug through internet archives to answer that very question.