Fox News Falsely Reports That ISIS Tweeted About Chattanooga Before Attack

During its coverage of the shooting death of four Marines in Chattanooga, Tenn., Fox News falsely reported that an ISIS account had tweeted about the attack just as it was starting.

“The last investigative thread I would mention at this point is we’re taking a hard look at a Twitter account, an ISIS-linked Twitter account, that seemed to have foreknowledge of the shooting in Chattanooga,” Fox’s Catherine Herridge reported on air.

“The tweet went out at 10:34 with the hashtag #Chattanooga, referring to American dogs and a likely shooting. This, of course, was about 15 minutes before the shooting took place, so this may be significant.”

Herridge appears to have been reporting on a screengrab going around Twitter of the alleged ISIS account tweeting about the attack, which does indeed have a timestamp of 10:34 AM.

But that’s because whoever made the screengrab was in a different time zone. Looking at the original tweet while logged into an Eastern time-set account reveals that it was actually made hours after the attack.

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