Fox Information reported that an explosion on the Rainbow Bridge US/Canada border was a terrorist assault, however they had been later pressured to retract their inaccurate reporting.
The unique report and retraction:
Fox Information has now eliminated definitive claims of a terror assault & explosives in car from its on-line report:https://t.co/0fg2POh46m
— Jackson Proskow (@JProskowGlobal) November 22, 2023
In fact, none of this stopped MAGAs like Kari Lake from claiming that it was a terrorist assault and blaming President Biden:
Two factors. 1) spellcheck. 2) saving this
Keep in mind when after each mass taking pictures we’re informed to “await extra info earlier than commenting?” pic.twitter.com/rol6sN4pWB
— Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱 (@AdamKinzinger) November 22, 2023
As former Rep. Kinzinger identified, the identical individuals who inform everybody that it’s too to speak about weapons after a mass taking pictures haven’t any downside working with inaccurate reviews about terrorist assaults and blaming the President Of The USA.
It was unhealthy reporting by the Fox Information reporter, however it’s even worse that conservatives will proceed to probably perpetuate this false story as they attempt to do political injury to President Biden.
Fox Information isn’t taken severely as credible journalism due to incidents like this. The truth that Fox Information left the wrong report on their web site for such a protracted time frame fuels the assumption that at Fox political ideology comes earlier than info.
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