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Reporter Quits After Being Told to Write Fake Story

A Reporter with the NY Post resigned after she claimed she was forced to write an incorrect story about migrants and Kamala Harris.

The Post which is run by Rupert Murdoch (who also runs Fox News) published a story on 23 April headlined “Kam on in”, which claimed that migrant children were being given a copy of the vice-president’s 2019 book, Superheroes Are Everywhere, as part of a welcome kit in Los Angeles.

Reporter Laura Italiano was credited with writing the story but on Tuesday she announced on Twitter that being told to write the “incorrect story” was her “breaking point” and that she did not “push back hard enough” over the false story.

The story was based on a single photograph of the book taken at a temporary immigration facility at the Long Beach convention center in Southern California, and was revealed as being incorrect.

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