Analysis: How the baseless rumor about Alito and an “undisclosed location” spread
to add a “REPORTS” caveat to the headline and now says “rumors around D.C.” instead of “reports around D.C.” It also added links to Shapiro’s interviews.
By Sunday, an antiabortion activist repeated the claim on social media. Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life America, tweeted, “Justice Alito and his family have been moved to an undisclosed location.” The source for the claim is not addressed. — Rebecca Downs An editor for the conservative site Townhall responded to Hawkins by saying, “Is this being reported or confirmed anywhere else? If so, I’d love to do an article!”Ultimately, despite no apparent actual confirmation — or indeed, a real, substantiated report to begin with — the editor updated an earlier post by adding “” to the headline. The update referenced only Hawkins’s tweet and the Breitbart report, and the headline was later changed to add the “Reports” caveat that Breitbart had also added.
The claim has also been written up on conservative sites such as the Federalist, the Post Millennial and the Western Journal and was also included in. In the headlines, there’s rarely a caveat that this might be in question. When it’s mentioned offhand, it’s often treated as fact. Oftentimes, this kind of thing stops at such sites and random users’ social media postings. But the rumors proved too attractive. A prominent Fox News analyst promoted it as a “
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