{"id":1501846,"date":"2022-06-02T20:29:53","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T00:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1501846"},"modified":"2022-06-02T20:29:58","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T00:29:58","slug":"fact-check-did-cnn-report-on-johnny-depp-and-kyle-rittenhouse-organizing-a-national-tour-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-cnn-report-on-johnny-depp-and-kyle-rittenhouse-organizing-a-national-tour-together\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Did CNN Report On Johnny Depp And Kyle Rittenhouse Organizing A National Tour Together?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/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-report-on-johnny-depp-and-kyle-rittenhouse-organizing-a-national-tour-together%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=1501846&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:\/\/archive.ph\/E2If8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Twitter<\/a> over 200 times purportedly shows a CNN article reporting on actor Johnny Depp organizing a national tour with Kyle Rittenhouse \u201cto spread awareness on the dangers of defamation.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">oh no \ud83d\ude2c <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KECxVG8nXk\">pic.twitter.com\/KECxVG8nXk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \ud835\udc12\ud835\udc1a\ud835\udc2c\ud835\udc21\ud835\udc1a\ud83d\udd2a (@tinywienerbabe) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tinywienerbabe\/status\/1532161630548635648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 2, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The image is digitally fabricated. There is no evidence CNN published such an article.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Depp won his defamation suit against his ex-wife Amber Heard on Wednesday and was awarded $15 million in damages, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/pop-culture\/pop-culture-news\/blog\/-johnny-depp-amber-heard-verdict-live-updates-rcna31428\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NBC News<\/a>. Depp sued Heard for writing a 2018 op-ed for the Washington Post in which she referred to herself as a \u201cpublic figure for domestic abuse,\u201d the outlet reported.<\/p>\n<p>An <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/E2If8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">image<\/a> shared on Twitter, which has garnered over 5,400 likes, appears to show a CNN article about Depp\u2019s post-trial plans. \u201cJohnny Depp rumored to be organizing national tour with Kyle Rittenhouse to spread awareness on the dangers of defamation,\u201d reads the purported June 1 article\u2019s headline.<\/p>\n<p>The screen grab is a digital fabrication. No such article could be found on CNN\u2019s website or verified <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=johnny%20depp%20kyle%20rittenhouse%20(from%3Acnn)&#038;src=typed_query\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">social<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/page\/5550296508\/search\/?q=johnny%20depp%20kyle%20rittenhouse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">media<\/a> accounts. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/profiles\/sonia-moghe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sonia Moghe<\/a>, the author of the alleged article, has not shared any information regarding the news on her verified <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=johnny%20depp%20kyle%20rittenhouse%20(from%3Asoniamoghe)&#038;src=typed_query\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter account<\/a> either.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is fabricated,\u201d Bridget Leininger, a CNN spokesperson, said in an email to Check Your Fact. <a href=\"https:\/\/amp.checkyourfact.com\/2022\/05\/31\/fact-check-amber-alert-heard-depp-trial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Did An Amber Alert Go Off During The Closing Arguments Of The Depp-Heard Trial?)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although Kyle Rittenhouse has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/kyle-rittenhouse-says-johnny-depps-033427060.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> Depp\u2019s victory in the trial has fueled his drive for his own defamation suits against the media, no <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=johnny+depp+kyle+rittenhouse+tour&#038;oq=johnny+depp+kyle+rittenhouse+tour&#038;aqs=chrome..69i57.5460j0j4&#038;sourceid=chrome&#038;ie=UTF-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">major news outlets<\/a> have reported on an upcoming tour headlined by Rittenhouse and Depp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Twitter over 200 times purportedly shows a CNN article reporting on actor Johnny Depp organizing a national tour with Kyle Rittenhouse \u201cto spread awareness on the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":2315279,"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-1501846","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\/1501846","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=1501846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1501846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1501846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1501846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}