{"id":1490360,"date":"2022-05-24T16:44:52","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T20:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1490360"},"modified":"2022-05-24T16:45:17","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T20:45:17","slug":"fact-check-did-cnn-publish-this-article-about-kelloggs-making-one-of-its-mascots-a-trans-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-cnn-publish-this-article-about-kelloggs-making-one-of-its-mascots-a-trans-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Did CNN Publish This Article About Kellogg\u2019s Making One Of Its Mascots A Trans Woman?"},"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\">34<\/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-article-about-kelloggs-making-one-of-its-mascots-a-trans-woman%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=1490360&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--><p>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jeremy.rivers.92372\/posts\/pfbid02fDb2xgGeGErRsgtnSoDDBXk6Zf5phiWY27RgcA2psvoR6VrnE2JAuUJp57yghskel\">shared on Facebook<\/a> purportedly shows an article published by CNN with a headline that reads, \u201cKellogg\u2019s spokesperson announces Rice Krispie mascot \u2018Pop\u2019 is now a trans woman.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The screenshot is digitally fabricated. There is no record of CNN publishing such a story.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span>Fact Check:\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The image appears to show a screenshot of a May 20 CNN article reporting that Kellogg\u2019s has announced that one of its mascots for Rice Krispies cereal is now a transgender woman. \u201c<span>Kellogg\u2019s spokesperson announces Rice Krispie mascot \u2018Pop\u2019 is now a trans woman,\u201d reads the alleged article\u2019s headline.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHuh,\u201d reads the image\u2019s caption. <span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/01\/29\/fact-check-cnn-headline-gamestop-reddit-hedge-fund\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Does This Image Show A Real CNN Headline Related To GameStop\u2019s Stock Price Increase?)<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>There is no record of CNN publishing such a story. It does not appear anywhere on the outlet\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/search?q=kellogg%27s+mascot+trans+woman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a>, nor could it be found on CNN\u2019s verified <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/search\/posts?q=kellogg%27s%20mascot%20trans%20woman%20&#038;filters=eyJycF9hdXRob3I6MCI6IntcIm5hbWVcIjpcImF1dGhvclwiLFwiYXJnc1wiOlwiNTU1MDI5NjUwOFwifSJ9\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/a><span>, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=kellogg%27s%20trans%20woman%20%20(from%3Acnn)&#038;src=typed_query\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/a><span> or <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/cnn\/\"><span>Instagram<\/span><\/a><span> accounts. A CNN spokesperson told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/factcheck-ricekrispies-transgender\/fact-check-fake-image-of-cnn-headline-saying-rice-krispies-character-is-transgender-idUSL2N2XG1DJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reuters<\/a> the news outlet had not published the story.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>There are likewise no <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=kellogg%27s+rice+krispies+trans+mascot&#038;sxsrf=ALiCzsagfvUC67CTgnumdhA8yd2wHkWlnQ:1653322756154&#038;source=lnms&#038;tbm=nws&#038;sa=X&#038;ved=2ahUKEwjChNGcg_b3AhVqomoFHX53AIQQ_AUoBHoECAEQBg&#038;biw=1536&#038;bih=722&#038;dpr=1.25\"><span>credible news reports<\/span><\/a><span> to support the claim that Kellogg\u2019s has altered its mascots. There is no mention of any change to Pop <\/span><span>on the brand\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kelloggs.com\/en_US\/search-results.html?q=Pop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a>.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have made no changes to the Rice Krispies mascots, Snap Crackle and Pop,\u201d said a Kellogg\u2019s spokesperson in an email to Check Your Fact.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time social media users have spread misinformation through fabricated CNN articles. <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/05\/16\/fact-check-cnn-article-ukraine-waco-siege\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Check Your Fact<\/a> recently debunked a claim that CNN published an article about the war in Ukraine that featured a picture of a burning compound from the 1993 Waco siege.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook purportedly shows an article published by CNN with a headline that reads, \u201cKellogg\u2019s spokesperson announces Rice Krispie mascot \u2018Pop\u2019 is now a trans woman.\u201dVerdict: False<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":613,"featured_media":1490427,"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-1490360","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\/1490360","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\/613"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1490360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1490427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1490360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1490360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1490360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}