Daily Beast Names the Wrong Farook Brother in San Bernardino
The Daily Beast identified San Bernardino shooter as Syed Raheel Farook and ran his Facebook photo; separately, an L.A. Times reporter and a Fox News scroll gave a hoax name for the female shooter.
A breaking-news misidentification with no partisan slant.
What was reported
The Daily Beast identified San Bernardino shooter as Syed Raheel Farook and ran his Facebook photo; separately, an L.A. Times reporter and a Fox News scroll gave a hoax name for the female shooter.
What actually happened
The shooter was Syed Rizwan Farook; Raheel, his brother, is a Navy veteran. The Daily Beast appended a correction expressing regret. The L.A. Times reporter retracted the second name as an apparent hoax after police said they had not released it.
The proof
Law enforcement identified the shooters as Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik; the Daily Beast's correction acknowledged the error.
The receipt. Copy this and paste it anywhere:
Daily Beast Names the Wrong Farook Brother in San Bernardino — Retracted. Law enforcement identified the shooters as Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik; the Daily Beast's correction acknowledged the error. Full file: https://www.thepropagandafiles.com/case/daily-beast-wrong-farook-san-bernardino/
Original reporting
- Adweek: The Daily Beast tags the wrong Syed Farook (documents original)http://www.adweek.com/fishbowlny/the-daily-beast-tags-the-wrong-syed-farook/361180
Corrections, findings & records
- iMediaEthics: Daily Beast IDs wrong San Bernardino suspecthttps://www.imediaethics.org/daily-beast-ids-wrong-san-bernardino-shootings-suspect-mixes-up-syed-farook-with-brother/
Archived copies
Stories get edited after publication. These open the Internet Archive's earliest saved copy of each original.
- Archived copy: Adweek: The Daily Beast tags the wrong Syed Farook (documents original)https://web.archive.org/web/2/http://www.adweek.com/fishbowlny/the-daily-beast-tags-the-wrong-syed-farook/361180