Fox News Contributor Admits to Creating Fake Story About Canadian Woman Being 'Trampled' to Death

[Zorro]

After leaving up the bogus tweet for nearly a day, it was pulled down after a request for comment from The Daily Beast.

Fox News contributor Sara Carter has walked back her entirely fictitious claim about a woman dying after being trampled by a Canadian authority on horseback amid ongoing trucker-led protests.

While the claim wasn’t accurate, the tweet was red-meat for her over 1.3 million conservative Twitter followers, who quickly amplified the baseless death as evidence of Canadian government wrongdoing.

“Reports are the woman trampled by a Canadian horse patrol just died at the hospital ... #Trudeau #FreedomConvoyCanada,” Carter, who purports to be an “award-winning correspondent,” tweeted Friday evening.

Shortly thereafter, conservatives picked up and amplified the tweet, including former Fox Nation hosts Diamond and Silk and Republican Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX).

https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-contributor-sara-carter-admits-to-creating-fake-story-about-canadian-woman-being-trampled

Well, I'm just shocked. Shocked, I say...

[spanone]

1. faux mocks the 1st amendment

[a kennedy]

2. WTAF???

[Deuxcents]

3. There should be repercussions for this crap

A million followers tell another million the false story but do they ever hear it’s admittedly false?

[Boomerproud]

6. I've never heard of Sara Carter and she's got 1m followers?

Another WTF is going on.

[ificandream]

4. Wait ... Diamond and Silk were hosts on that stupid network?

Good grief.

[dalton99a]

5. Too late. It is now accepted fact.

[spanone]

7. They. ALL. Lie.

This shit is so maddening. She should be removed from twitter and all accounts.

If faux had a shred of integrity they would fire her.

[Bristlecone]

8. Mission Accomplished.

[monkeyman1]

9. Every American citizen has the the right to sue faux news for misleading the American public

about life threatening misinformation that leads to death ! It put's the burden of proof on the defendant ! that would be faux !

[JackintheGreen]

10. Um...that's not what she said

According to the article linked she said, “The Reports I was given earlier yesterday from sources on the ground that someone may have died at a hospital during the trampling was wrong.”

She did not admit to making up a story. She blamed an in accurate source on the ground. She can still claim to to a reporter, ie, “my sources on the ground are reporting that….”

Not saying she didn’t make it up out of whole cloth, but from the DB reporting we just don’t know. Are we going to hold her to a standard of reporting (or headline writing) we don’t maintain ourselves?

Or did I miss something in the article?

[Hav]

11. So it's misinformation about a case of misinformation

for the sake of clicks and manipulation. What a perfect illustration for the current state of parts of the media.