http://www.businessinsider.com/trudeau-quebec-mosque-shooting-fox-news-tweet-2017-1
The office of Canada's Prime Minister requested on Tuesday that Fox News retract or update what it called a "false and misleading" tweet about the nationality of the suspect in the deadly Quebec mosque shooting that left six dead on Sunday. Fox News' tweet said the suspect was "of Moroccan origin," information that was later proven false by authorities but not immediately corrected by the outlet on Twitter. The outlet deleted the tweet Tuesday evening after receiving the Prime Minister's office's request, more than 24 hours after it was originally posted. "FoxNews.com initially corrected the misreported information with a tweet and an update to the story on Monday. The earlier tweets have now been deleted. We regret the error," Refet Kaplan, managing director of FoxNews.com, told Business Insider in a statement. The retraction request, sent by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's communications director Kate Purchase, asked that Fox News either retract or update their tweet "to reflect the suspect's actual identity." "Sadly, this misleading information has been left to stand on the Fox News Channel's twitter account and continued to circulate online even now," Purchase wrote in an email to Fox News. "These tweets by Fox News dishonour the memory of the six victims and their families by spreading misinformation, playing identity politics, and perpetuating fear and division within our communities," she added. Purchase later thanked the outlet for deleting the tweet.... The confusion likely stemmed from reports from Quebec authorities that two suspects were in police custody after the attack: Alexandre Bissonnette and Mohamed Khadir. Authorities later clarified that Khadir, also identified in some reports as Mohammed Belhkadir, was a witness to the attack who had called 911 — not a suspect charged in the attack. But in tweeting its updates of the story, Fox News did not clarify the identity of the real suspect, Bissonnette, who is a white French-Canadian male. Nor did it explain that its original characterization of the suspect as Moroccan was incorrect. Bissonnette, a 27-year-old university student, has since been charged with six counts of first-degree murder and five counts of attempted murder while using a restricted firearm. Before the shooting, which Canadian authorities have referred to a terrorist attack, Bissonnette had expressed extremist, nationalist, and anti-Muslim views both online and to his friends, the Globe and Mail reported.... On Tuesday, January 31, 2017 at 6:08:57 PM UTC-8, KeithInTampa wrote: > > No Mags.... > > The original reports coming from the mainstream media were that the > "Shooter(s) yelled: Go Trump". > > Obviously that's far from what happened, and like most far left extremists > and mainstream media hacks, Glen Greenwald should have a nice cold > refreshing cup of "Shut The Hell Up" until all the facts are in: > > > http://www.bizpacreview.com/2017/01/30/terror-hits-canada-note-media-mosque-shooter-shouting-allahu-akbar-not-go-trump-441999 > > > http://www.chicksontheright.com/witnesses-say-gunmen-responsible-for-quebec-city-mosque-shooting-shouted-allahu-akbar/ > > On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 8:52 PM, ImStillMags Mags <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Last night, this blue eyed white nationalist walked into a mosque and >> murdered 6 Muslims. >> >> For 24 hours, Fox News <https://www.facebook.com/FoxNews/> and hundreds >> of thousands of conservatives have been LYING and saying the shooter was a >> Moroccan Muslim speaking Arabic. >> >> This was a complete fabrication. In fact, the shooter was a KNOWN online >> troll who LOVED Donald Trump. He liked his pages here on Facebook. >> >> Here's the thing - in one evening, this white man murdered 6 more people >> than EVERY refugee from Donald Trump's banned nation list combined. Because >> refugees from those nations have never murdered an American. Ever. >> >> https://theintercept.com/…/suspect-in-quebec-mosque-attack…/ >> <https://theintercept.com/2017/01/30/suspect-in-quebec-mosque-attack-quickly-depicted-as-a-moroccan-muslim-hes-a-white-nationalist/> >> >> <https://theintercept.com/2017/01/30/suspect-in-quebec-mosque-attack-quickly-depicted-as-a-moroccan-muslim-hes-a-white-nationalist/> >> Suspect in Quebec Mosque Attack Quickly Depicted as a Moroccan Muslim. >> He’s a White Nationalist. >> <https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftheintercept.com%2F2017%2F01%2F30%2Fsuspect-in-quebec-mosque-attack-quickly-depicted-as-a-moroccan-muslim-hes-a-white-nationalist%2F&h=ATOOM-zR9g5alnCX9lu2hkXAA-4GOGX2uw0yI1zm07NVjgJRzQ1BgLCuQV59BZG7fiEO5wthX92QT6e0GqIE_BFXeJv91NDTEye5H8onpfu9_J-d8chlSUA8sBIiDCjiM2Qz9e71GgXr&enc=AZOVUrL-IJepmbdLpDXQkwLETcUzMPlmIxABPVgc5VTktBsImKQhNG5lKzOGMJtCTFvRPnYL5Sg9tb6sy_zk0W57dlK_YtX7Zh2qAq0B8By7RCOp9-mo_dSlWEmMikXwSnxRZ-0E8TTXEmDz8tSssAf9iWJQ4u9VI8g1_45Q_9cX8Ckwt_O7UrIV0MHUTvxbliI9gamYjrh6LkneTEBEXtGc&s=1> >> Both the White House and Fox News helped to spread these false claims,… >> THEINTERCEPT.COM|BY GLENN GREENWALD >> <https://www.facebook.com/glenn.greenwald.5> >> >> On Monday, January 30, 2017 at 11:44:09 AM UTC-8, Kamakazee wrote: >>> >>> Yep, they were hoping. 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