A headline that initially appeared on the satirical website stating that the ABC News anchor moderating the Sept. 10 presidential debate between Democratic candidate Kamala Harris and Republican rival Donald Trump had been removed was untrue.
A false headline shared on Facebook and threads said: “ABC sacks debate moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis: ‘They are a professional disgrace’” “ Soon” and “It’s about time.”
ABC hosts Davis and Muir were a focus of Trump’s post-debate criticism , with Trump saying the moderators were going soft on Harris and describing the debate as “three against one”.
However, there are no credible news reports that ABC has fired these anchors.
There is no press release on the ABC News website about the firing of Muir and Davis .
Representatives for ABC did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Some posts shared a headline link from the September 16 article without attributing it to the headline-fodder site and providing no identifying information about the site other than its privacy policy .
The same headline appeared in a report published on September 12 by satirical news blog Esspots , a subsidiary of the copycat website SpaceXMania, and added that.
Askume has previously caught on to Esspots’ fake headlines .
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Wrong. There is no evidence that ABC fired anchors David Muir and Lindsay Davis after the presidential debate. The headline comes from a website that bills itself as a source of satirical news.
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