“Fox News chyron called University of North Carolina shooting suspect “mostly white Asian.”
Social media posts
Instagram. Claim dated 29 Aug 2023.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse
What PolitiFact found
Images showing a Fox News chyron calling the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill shooting suspect a "mostly white Asian male," are fabricated.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 29 August 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 30 August 2023, 1 day later. Its rating was “False”.
Where the claim appeared
- Instagram posthttps://www.instagram.com/p/Cwh5onFODdf/
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