Fox News showed a parody account for Reality Winner during a live broadcast.
Fox News showed a parody account for Reality Winner during a live broadcast.
On 6 June 2017, a parody Twitter account for Reality Winner, the 25-year oldÂ government contractor who was arrested on 5 June for leaking classified documents, posted an image purportedly showing a screenshot of a Fox News broadcast in which the network mistakenly showedÂ the handle of the fake account: However, the screenshot was doctored. The biggest giveaway that this image is fake is the scrawl across the bottom of the image. Fox News typically usesÂ all capital letters during their broadcasts, but this image uses a different font. Furthermore, a white border appears around the words â€œDOJ Charges Contractor Leaking Classified Info,â€ indicating that this phrase was photoshopped over Fox Newsâ€™ genuine text.Â In reality, a screenshot from a 14 February 2017 broadcast of Fox News was usedÂ to create the hoaxÂ image; the creator of the Twitter account told us that they did not have anything to do with making the graphic, but they did retweet it. Tom Namako, the Deputy News Director of Buzzfeed,Â captured a genuine screenshot of this Fox News broadcast: The person who created the imageÂ did soÂ by putting a photograph of Reality Winner over a picture of Michael Flynn, adding a fake news crawl, and then posting the doctored image toÂ Twitter.
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