Fox News Stealth-Edits Article on Vaccine Protests to Remove All Mentions of White Nationalists

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Fox News appeared to heavily modify an article published over the weekend, not least by scrubbing the presence of a specific group of white supremacists at a standoff between Antifa protesters and anti-vaccine mandate proponents.

On Saturday, Fox published an article by Adam Sabes entitled “Antifa members clash with White nationalists over COVID vaccine mandate outside NYC’s Gracie Mansion.” A previous version of the report said that “Far-right activist Nick Fuentes organized the protest against vaccine mandates outside of Gracie Mansion on Saturday night, where Antifa groups also showed up to confront his group, the ‘Groyper Army.'”

The original article contained a note that the Anti-Defamation League considers the “Groyper Army” a white supremacist group. Fuentes, the group’s leader, is a known anti-Semite who has denied the Holocaust, defended segregation, and engaged in harassment and threats toward journalists.

Here’s a screenshot of the article as it was originally presented on Twitter:

The article was modified later on, and the current version has a noticeably less-explicit headline: “Antifa members clash with anti-vaccine protesters outside NYC’s Gracie Mansion.” Not only that, but the article erased all mention of Fuentes and the Groypers while presenting a harsher focus on “Antifa radicals” than it did before.

The Daily Beast reports that the edit happened after Fuentes railed against Fox’s coverage, calling the network “Scum” in social media posts. Michelle Malkin, a right-wing former Fox News contributor who has supported Fuentes in the past, was also reportedly among those pushing back on Fox’s original framing.