Horrors! Author Stephen King Shares ‘Fake News’ About DeSantis - Apologizes

Patrick Taylor | July 11, 2022
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Horror author and left-wing activist Stephen King failed to do his due diligence last Wednesday, posting a claim about Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) that even the leftist “fact-checker” Politifact found to be inaccurate.

“DeSantis signs bill requiring Florida students, professors to register political views with state,” King wrote in a now-deleted response to a false Salon story, “I. Can't. Even.” 

According to Politifact's fact-check of King's claim, the author’s tweet refers to a 2021 Florida law signed by DeSantis requiring “an annual assessment of intellectual freedom and viewpoint diversity on state college and university campuses.”

The 2022 survey distributed by the state of Florida was anonymous and voluntary, with a question regarding political affiliation being included for faculty members only.

“Neither students nor faculty are required to register political views,” Politifact concluded.

Though they threw the right a bone this time, Politifact has a history of giving clearly true claims  as false when they are said by conservatives.

Politifact once hilariously “fact-checked” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on the basis that “it’s not accurate to say that transgender women are men.”

Perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised, then, that a defection from the left-wing organization was enough to sway King.

In a rare moment of self-awareness, the writer admitted his error, conceding in another tweet on Saturday that, “I deleted a tweet about Ron DeSantis requiring notice of political views of students and teachers. That really was fake news. Sorry.”

Still eager to throw some red meat to his leftist Twitter fanbase after the mistake, King included a snarky addendum: “DeSantis is still a jerk. That isn't fake news.”

In a final statement given to CNN, the Twitter-active King elaborated, “I regret having posted the headline without being more confident the story was correct. Salon is usually more reliable. Twitter is a constant learning experience, and I will try to do better.”

Related: Stephen King Thinks MS-13 Is a Gun. No, Seriously. - MRCTV

Perhaps this mistake will convince King to do further research before resuming his usual stream of far-left hysteria on Twitter. I won’t hold my breath.

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