Fox News Channel apologized on Monday “for any confusion” in reporting a now-debunked story about the mayor of Nashville, Tennessee, supposedly concealing the number of coronavirus cases linked to bars and restaurants in that city because they were so low.
The story came from a Thursday report by Nashville's Fox affiliate WZTV on “leaked emails” that the station retracted late Friday upon learning that they didn't mean what its reporter thought they did.
The story spread among national conservative commentators as a supposed example of the harm of coronavirus restrictions. It was the lead segment on Tucker Carlson Tonight on Thursday night and Fox & Friends devoted time to it the following morning.
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