{"id":1474758,"date":"2022-05-13T17:29:52","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T21:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1474758"},"modified":"2022-05-13T17:29:56","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T21:29:56","slug":"fact-check-did-cnn-publish-this-tweet-that-refers-to-comments-from-the-dalai-lama-as-white-nationalist-talking-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-cnn-publish-this-tweet-that-refers-to-comments-from-the-dalai-lama-as-white-nationalist-talking-points\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Did CNN Publish This Tweet That Refers To Comments From The Dalai Lama As \u2018White Nationalist Talking Points\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">40<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-did-cnn-publish-this-tweet-that-refers-to-comments-from-the-dalai-lama-as-white-nationalist-talking-points%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1474758&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PsychicMediumBrough\/photos\/a.1870177503312954\/3098629517134407\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> purportedly shows a CNN tweet that refers to comments from the Dalai Lama as \u201cwhite nationalist talking points.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>There is no record of CNN publishing such a tweet. A CNN spokesperson confirmed the tweet is fabricated.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Dalai Lama is the spiritual leader of Tibet, according to the figure\u2019s official <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dalailama.com\/the-dalai-lama\/biography-and-daily-life\/brief-biography\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a>. He is believed to be the \u201cmanifestations of Avalokiteshvara or Chenrezig, the Bodhisattva of Compassion and the patron saint of Tibet,\u201d the website reports.<\/p>\n<p>An image shared on Facebook appears to show a CNN tweet accusing the current Dalai Lama of using white nationalist talking points. \u201cThe Dalai Lama sparks controversy, after stating white nationalist talking points on immigration and nationhood, causing condemnation,\u201d reads the alleged tweet. \u201cIn a rambling conversation, the elderly monk appeared to suggest that so-called, \u2018white-countries\u2019 had a right to expel non-white people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The image is digitally fabricated. The alleged tweet does not appear on CNN\u2019s verified <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=dalai%20lama%20white%20nationalist%20(from%3Acnn)&#038;src=typed_query\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a> page or on <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220513044344\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/CNN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">online archives<\/a> of the outlet\u2019s Twitter page. There is also no reporting about the Dalai Lama using \u201cwhite nationalist talking points\u201d on CNN\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/search?size=10&#038;q=dalai%20lama%20white%20nationalist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a>. A CNN spokesperson confirmed the tweet was fabricated in an email to Check Your Fact.\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/04\/11\/fact-check-elon-musk-twitter-cnn-report-free-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Did CNN Air A Chyron Stating Elon Musk Could \u2018Threaten Free Speech On Twitter\u2019?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CNN did publish a story in 2019 titled, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/06\/27\/world\/dalai-lama-female-successor-europe-trump-bbc-trnd\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Dalai Lama just said some (more) controversial things about women and migrants<\/a>.\u201d The article recounts how in a 2019 interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/av\/world-asia-48767048\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BBC News<\/a>, the Dalai Lama said it is best to \u201ckeep Europe for Europeans\u201d and joked that any potential female successor to him would need to be physically attractive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook purportedly shows a CNN tweet that refers to comments from the Dalai Lama as \u201cwhite nationalist talking points.\u201dVerdict: False There is no record of CNN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":1482920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1474758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1474758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1482920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1474758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1474758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1474758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}