Whatever credibility the now notorious “mainstream media” might have had left is gone. RIP Daily Beast.
The Quebec mosque shooters have been identified as Moroccan Muslim Mohamed Khadir and Alexandre Bissonnette (most probably a convert). The shooters in the Quebec mosque attack are Muslim, as is generally the case in these circumstances. The jihadis were shouting “Allahu akbar” as they gunned down men worshiping at a Quebec mosque.
But that didn’t stop the Daily Beast from running with a completely false and ridiculous news story. They ran a parody as “breaking news.” That is how desperate and dangerous the left-wing media is to smear and destroy Donald Trump and his supporters — they will advance a blood libel to advance their malevolent agenda.
The Daily Beast reported this:
How careless does one have to be to not notice this obvious evidence of a fake news operation? This is a perfect example of a story that is “too good to check,” as the old (but suddenly relevant) journalists’ joke has it. In the eagerness to confirm a narrative that would indirectly blame President Trump for an outbreak of anti-Islam violence in the wake of his seven-country entry pause, evidently, no one at The Daily Beast noticed. Actually investigating whether this was true, or whether Reuters has reported it anywhere else, was a bridge too far for the Beasts who publish daily “news” (including fake news).
The great irony here, as Greer points out, is that:
… [t]he Daily Beast is a frequent critic of the “fake news” phenomenon and has published several articles denouncing fabricated stories as a threat to American democracy.
I am not familiar with Canadian or Quebec laws on libel, but it strikes me that the sheer obviousness of the fakery may hand a large judgment to the three men named……(American Thinker)
The Daily Beast has been running fake news stories for years – just look at their coverage of me or my work. But this? This destroys them finally and completely.
David Aurine & Mathieu Fornier Are NOT the Quebec City Mosque Shooting Suspects
By Tom Cleary, Heavy, January 30, 2017:
A tweet appearing to be from a Reuters breaking news account identified the gunmen in a terrorist attack on a Quebec City mosque as two white supremacists, named David Aurine and Mathieu Fornier.
But the account is fake. Its profile says it is a “Parody that’s not actually affiliated with Reuters in any way.” It was suspended Sunday night by Twitter.
The account was created in August 2016 and has previously tweeted fake news about mass shootings, including identifying the Fort Lauderdale airport gunman as alt-right personality Mike Cernovich. It also claimed Republican strategist Rick Wilson attempted an assassination Donald Trump, among other hoaxes connected to major news events.
The account has only two people following it, and follows 278. But the tweet was reposted more than 1,000 times in the hour after it was posted and the names spread quickly on social media.
The photo on the left in the fake account’s tweet is of Davis M.J. Aurini, an alt-right Trump supporter from Canada.
Aurini, who calls himself Davis the Deplorable, appears to be in on the joke. He has previously retweeted the fake Reuters account, and on Sunday shared an article calling him the shooter, saying “Time to come clean: David Aurine is my twin brother, left handed, works with Antifa, wasn’t raised by wolves like me.”
The man in the second photo, called Mathieu Fornier, is Matt Forney, an alt-right writer.
https://twitter.com/thelateempire/status/825925569703452673/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
The Daily Beast is among the news outlets to say Reuters was reporting Aurine and Fornier as the suspects. Its report links to the CBC, but it is not clear if the CBC also fell for the hoax.
Many fake news accounts are spreading false details of the horrific attack in Quebec City. Please look closely before retweeting.
— Gerald Butts
(@gmbutts) January 30, 2017
It’s not my fault modern journalists are all gullible morons
— Reuter New Braek (@ReutersBrk) January 30, 2017
