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  • 2017-10-30 (xsd:date)
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  • Did Fox News Ignore News of Paul Manafort's Indictment and Cover a Cheeseburger Emoji Controversy Instead? (en)
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  • Conservative news did not make a meal of a silly emoji story about cheeseburgers instead of covering the federal investigation into alleged Russian election tampering. The indictment of Paul Manafort on 30 October 2017 trended across Twitter (with hashtags like #HappyIndictmentDay), as did a related meme suggesting that Fox News instituted a blackout of the political development in favor of reporting the same news carried on competitors MSNBC and CNN: It didn't take long for the claim to take root as a literal assessment of Fox News' 30 October 2017 programming schedule during breaking, high-interest political news: The Twitter timeline for @FoxAndFriends told a different story. Tweets concurrent with the show's on-air reporting centered heavily on Manafort's indictment — and we were unable to find any linking to content about a cheeseburger emoji: During the apex of general coverage (at 8:18 AM EST and after), @FoxAndFriends tweeted: However, Fox was not the only major news network to cover the cheeseburger emoji controversy on the same day the indictment made headlines: Although it appears that the meme began as a joke about Fox News covering a cheeseburger emoji controversy in lieu of the topical events surrounding Paul Manafort, it quickly became something people on social media believed was literally the case. Independent fact-checking site Shooting the Messenger moved quickly to debunk the story: By comparison, CNN also covered the emoji debate, yet Twitter focused on the early morning show's comprehensive coverage of the Manafort news. (en)
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