Support PBS News Hour

This is a U.S. news story, published by PBS, that relates primarily to Jabbar news.

U.S. news

For more U.S. news, you can click here:

more U.S. news

Jabbar news

For more Jabbar news, you can click here:

more Jabbar news

News about Us political corruption

For more Us political corruption news, you can click here:

more Us political corruption news

PBS news

For more news from PBS, you can click here:

more news from PBS

About the Otherweb

Otherweb, Inc is a public benefit corporation, dedicated to improving the quality of news people consume. We are non-partisan, junk-free, and ad-free. We use artificial intelligence (AI) to remove junk from your news feed, and allow you to select the best politics news, business news, entertainment news, and much more. If you like this article about Us political corruption, you might also like this article about

PBS News Hour

. We are dedicated to bringing you the highest-quality news, junk-free and ad-free, about your favorite topics. Please come every day to read the latest Fox News news, second Fox News clip news, news about Us political corruption, and other high-quality news about any topic that interests you. We are working hard to create the best news aggregator on the web, and to put you in control of your news feed - whether you choose to read the latest news through our website, our news app, or our daily newsletter - all free!

Fox News reporter

PBS

•

How a Fox News report fueled false claims by Trump and others about the New Orleans suspect

Summary

Nutrition label

66% Informative

Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42 , was a U.S. citizen and Army veteran.

Jabbar killed 14 people in New Orleans on New Year's Day in a police shootout.

Fox News reported that the truck had crossed the border two days before, citing “federal sources” Reporters walked this back within minutes on air, saying it wasn’t driven by Jabbar .

At 11:55 a.m. ET , Fox News corrected the timeline on air, saying that the truck crossed the border in mid-November and confirmed that it wasn’t driven by Jabbar .

Despite Fox ’s correction, many of these erroneous posts remain online without clarification.

VR Score

Informative language

Neutral language

Article tone

formal

Language

English

Language complexity

Offensive language

not offensive

Hate speech