{"id":1597036,"date":"2022-08-09T13:55:09","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T17:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1597036"},"modified":"2022-08-09T13:55:15","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T17:55:15","slug":"fact-check-did-jk-rowling-publish-these-tweets-about-being-adored-in-the-harry-potter-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-jk-rowling-publish-these-tweets-about-being-adored-in-the-harry-potter-universe\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Did JK Rowling Publish These Tweets About Being Adored In The Harry Potter Universe?"},"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-jk-rowling-publish-these-tweets-about-being-adored-in-the-harry-potter-universe%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=1597036&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2011-06-23T000000Z_603089223_LM1E76N0XCW01_RTRMADP_3_BOOKS-HARRYPOTTER-scaled-e1659976372992.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>An image <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thecisareatitagain\/photos\/a.1459468900793384\/7909525172454359\/?type=3&#038;theater\"><span>shared on Facebook<\/span><\/a><span> purportedly shows tweets from author J.K. Rowling describing how characters in the Harry Potter book series would look favorably on her.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The tweets are digitally fabricated. There is no evidence to suggest Rowling made such statements on social media or elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Rowling, the author behind the Harry Potter book series, previously made headlines for criticizing gender-oriented policies that she claims \u201cendanger extremely vulnerable teenage girls,\u201d according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/lifestyle\/so-bloody-angry-j-k-rowling-criticizes-gender-focused-policies-endanger-extremely-vulnerable-girls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox News<\/a>. An image shared on Facebook claims she recently took to Twitter to defend herself from the criticism.<\/p>\n<p>The Facebook image appears to show a tweet thread from Rowling where she imagines herself as a universally-loved shopkeeper in the Harry Potter universe. \u201cCalling me a transphobe would be unthinkable in the world of Harry Potter,\u201d reads part of one tweet, while another states that only the villains of Harry Potter would call her a \u201cbigot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span>This screenshot is digitally altered. The tweets cannot be found on\u00a0Rowling\u2019s verified <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jk_rowling?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a> account or on her other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/jkrowling_official\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">social<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile\/100044413599933\/search\/?q=am%20not%20a%20famous%20author\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">media accounts<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220000000000*\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/jk_rowling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Archived versions<\/a> of her Twitter account likewise do not show any record of the tweets. <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/06\/28\/fact-check-rowling-abortions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>(RELATED: No, JK Rowling Did Not Publish This Tweet About Abortions)<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe tweets shown in the Facebook screengrab you sent are obviously not by J.K. Rowling, and do not appear on her verified Twitter feed,\u201d said Rebecca Salt, a spokesperson for the author, in an email to Check Your Fact.<\/p>\n<p><span>The image appears to stem from a satirical Aug. 3 article featured on the website <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/clickhole.com\/the-saga-continues-jk-rowling-has-announced-that-in-the-harry-potter-universe-she-is-a-universally-beloved-potions-shop-owner-who-no-one-considers-a-bigot\/\"><span>Clickhole<\/span><\/a><span>. The website\u2019s \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/clickhole.com\/about\/\"><span>about<\/span><\/a>\u201c<span> page states, \u201cThe First Amendment protects satire as a form of free speech and expression. ClickHole uses invented names in all of its stories, except in cases where public figures are being satirized.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time an article from ClickHole has spread on social media without users realizing its satirical nature. Check Your Fact previously <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/06\/11\/fact-check-james-mattis-statement-idaho-american-flag\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">debunked<\/a> a claim from the outlet that former Secretary of Defense James Mattis said there is a backup American flag if Idaho \u201cdisappears.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook purportedly shows tweets from author J.K. Rowling describing how characters in the Harry Potter book series would look favorably on her.Verdict: False The tweets are<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":613,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1597036","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\/1597036","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=1597036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597036\/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=1597036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1597036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1597036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}