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A viral Instagram post allegedly shows Daily Wire co-founder and conservative commentator Ben Shapiro tweeting about his wife’s bedroom on Columbus Day. Instagram/Screenshot Verdict: False There isn’t any record of Shapiro sending the tweet. It appears to have been fabricated. Fact Check: The tweet, purportedly sent by Shapiro Oct. 11 using Twitter for Android, reads , My daughter woke me up this morning and asked me what day it was. I asked, ‘is it Columbus Day?’ She replied: ‘YEP!’ She then went into my wife’s bedroom and asked her the same question. I couldn’t be prouder. Check Your Fact didn’t find any evidence Shapiro sent the tweet. A keyword search of his Twitter timeline turned up no matches for the purported statement, and archived screenshots of his account from Oct. 11 do not show a record of him tweeting it. Other tweets by Shapiro from the same day, such as one at 10:25 a.m. , 8:24 p.m. and 9:29 p.m. , were posted using the Twitter Web App, a review of his tweets found. Media outlets also haven’t reported on him tweeting about his wife’s bedroom on Columbus Day, except to debunk the authenticity of the supposed tweet. A Daily Wire spokesperson confirmed to Check Your Fact in an email that the tweet was fake. (RELATED: Did Ben Shapiro Send This Tweet About His ‘#RedPill Moment’?) While the exact origin of the fabricated tweet isn’t clear, it did go viral on Reddit and Twitter in addition to on Facebook’s platforms. In the subreddit r/ToiletPaperUSA , it was shared with a fake news warning. On Twitter, one user who shared it later acknowledged it was a joke. This isn’t the first time a fabricated tweet attributed to Shapiro has made the rounds online. In March, Check Your Fact debunked a fake tweet about a #redpill moment that was made to look like it was sent by the conservative commentator.
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