"This post and story should be immediately retracted by ABC News for providing false information to intentionally alarm the American people. They wrote this based on one email that was sent to local law enforcement in California about a single, unverified tip. The email even states the tip was based on *unverified* intelligence. Yet ABC News left out this critical fact in their story!"
"No such threat from Iran to our homeland exists, and it never did. ABC has since updated their story with a note explaining that The FBI has posted a fuller version of its alert to California authorities, which includes that the information was unverified."
"Thank you to ABC News for issuing a correction to this story. The problem? Their original, misleading story received 10M views and panicked people across the country. The correction only has 100K views. Fake News is real and it is dangerous."
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt attacked ABC News over its reporting of an FBI alert sent to California law enforcement regarding alleged Iranian plans for a surprise unmanned aerial vehicle attack on unspecified U.S. targets. Leavitt argued ABC failed to prominently disclose that the intelligence was unverified, instead presenting it as factual information that alarmed the public. She stated no actual threat from Iran existed. ABC subsequently updated its story to include the full FBI alert noting the unverified nature of the information. Leavitt continued criticizing the outlet, highlighting that the original misleading story reached 10 million views while the correction only achieved 100,000 views, characterizing this as an example of dangerous misinformation.
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