{"id":1547237,"date":"2022-07-10T10:34:22","date_gmt":"2022-07-10T14:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1547237"},"modified":"2022-07-10T10:34:39","modified_gmt":"2022-07-10T14:34:39","slug":"stephen-kings-fake-news-tweet-about-ron-desantis-debunked-writer-apologizes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stephen-kings-fake-news-tweet-about-ron-desantis-debunked-writer-apologizes\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen King\u2019s \u2018Fake News\u2019 Tweet About Ron DeSantis Debunked, Writer Apologizes"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fstephen-kings-fake-news-tweet-about-ron-desantis-debunked-writer-apologizes%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=1547237&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>It must have been frightening for horror writer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/stephen-king\">Stephen King<\/a> to apologize for a tweet about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/ron-desantis\">Ron DeSantis<\/a> that turned out to be pure fiction.<\/p>\n<p>The far-left novelist told his 6.7 million Twitter followers on July 6 that the popular Florida governor had signed a bill requiring Sunshine State students and professors to register their political views with the state. But when people pointed out that it was a bogus claim from an old Salon article, King first apologized, then took down the tweet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI deleted a tweet about Ron DeSantis requiring notice of political views of students and teachers,\u201d King tweeted. \u201cThat really was fake news. Sorry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I deleted a tweet about Ron DeSantis requiring notice of political views of students and teachers. That really was fake news. Sorry.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Stephen King (@StephenKing) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StephenKing\/status\/1545866656689393664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 9, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Twitter, which selectively cracks down on anything it deems misinformation, did nothing about the tweet for several days before King acted. When the writer initially apologized, he blamed his source in a statement to CNN.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI regret having posted the headline without being more confident the story was correct,\u201d said King, who had retweeted the old phony story with the words \u201cI. Can\u2019t. Even.\u2019 \u201cSalon is usually more reliable. Twitter is a constant learning experience, and I will try to do better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The law DeSantis signed, and Salon botched, requires public colleges and universities in Florida to perform voluntary annual surveys on the subject of \u201cintellectual freedom and viewpoint diversity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Politifact, the left-wing fact-check site run by the Poynter Institute, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/factchecks\/2022\/jul\/07\/stephen-king\/florida-not-requiring-professors-students-register\/\">deemed King\u2019s claim misinformation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKing claimed DeSantis signed a \u200b\u200bbill \u201crequiring Florida students, professors to register political views with (the) state,\u201d Politifact wrote. \u201cWe rate King\u2019s statement False.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Salon finally changed the headline, which a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/07\/08\/politics\/fact-check-desantis-florida-students-professors-political-views\/index.html\">CNN fact-check<\/a> also called out as false, this week.<\/p>\n<p>The 74-year-old author, whose far-left views are well known, is a prolific Twitter user. Earlier this year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/seriously-ignorant-stephen-king-gets-buried-over-hot-take-on-putin-and-biden\">he was roundly ridiculed<\/a> when he tweeted that\u00a0Russian President Vladimir Putin had met his match in\u00a0President Joe Biden, who he said would punish the Russian leader for invading Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. Putin has made a serious miscalculation. He forgot he\u2019s no longer dealing with Trump,\u201d King tweeted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It must have been frightening for horror writer Stephen King to apologize for a tweet about Ron DeSantis that turned out to be pure fiction. 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