Fox News Forced To Retract Insane Conspiracy Story
On Tuesday, Fox News was forced to issue a public retraction of a controversial, insane conspiracy story it published last week about the investigation of DNC staffer Seth Rich’s murder.
“On May 16, a story was posted on the Fox News website on the investigation into the 2016 murder of DNC Staffer Seth Rich,” Fox’s retraction says.
“The article was not initially subjected to the high degree of editorial scrutiny we require for all our reporting. Upon appropriate review, the article was found not to meet those standards and has since been removed.”
Fox’s original article claimed that “sources in FBI” suggested they’d seen Rich’s computer containing evidence of him corresponding with WikiLeaks prior to his murder. However, the FBI never had Rich’s computer, making Fox’s central claim a total lie.
Despite that fact, Fox News shows including Sean Hannity’s have aired the story during primetime multiple times.
The Rich family has expressed their outrage to Fox News.
Flag: Fox News has retracted their Seth Rich report: https://t.co/n0f7ExPX46 pic.twitter.com/oukASXkjjJ
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) May 23, 2017