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  • 2017-03-09 (xsd:date)
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  • Was Megyn Kelly Fired from NBC? (en)
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  • In early March 2017, a round of hoax stories had many readers wondering whether Megyn Kelly, the former Fox News host, had left the cable news channel for NBC News only to be quickly fired before even making it to the air. The fake news story about Megyn Kelly contains a made-up quote from a made-up NBC Universal executive claiming that she had been replaced by conservative commentator Elizabeth Hasselbeck: The CEO of NBC Universal is actually Stephen Burke, not Maxwell Seawald, and the network does not have an executive by that name. Kelly is expected to start her new stint on NBC in the fall of 2017. She left Fox News when her contract expired. She had been one of the female employees at Fox to level sexual harassment allegations against former chairman Roger Ailes: Kelly will anchor a daily program that will air Monday through Friday and will also host a Sunday evening news show, per NBC: The claim that Kelly was fired from NBC News originally came from TheLastLineOfDefense.org, a repeat offender that carries a buried disclaimer on its About page stating that it is a satirical web site, and that information it publishes is thus not reliable: The same site spread a very similar rumor at the same time about a colleague of Megyn Kelly's: longtime Fox News anchor Shep Smith. He, like Kelly, has not been fired. (en)
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