After Factual Error, #FoxNewsFacts Trends, Mocking Network
The hashtag #FoxNewsFacts is trending on Twitter, after a goof in which a host said that Birmingham is “closed to non-Muslims.” However, according to the city’s Wikipedia page, the population is only about 20 percent Muslim. While every news organization gets things wrong sometimes, this particular error sent viewers into gales of laughter, and started a hashtag that would mock the conservative-leaning network.
With the hashtag #FoxNewsFacts, Twitter users are posting made up stories, many mocking the network’s conservative views, others just being silly. Notably, many satirize conservative views of Muslims and Islam.
The sign seen as you enter Birmingham #foxnewsfacts pic.twitter.com/THy8blKPkQ
— ?????? (@Imranj_) January 12, 2015
Since 2011, 78.2% of Brimingham’s population has converted to Islam #FoxNewsfacts pic.twitter.com/71y809NefJ
— Clive Peedell (@cpeedell) January 12, 2015
Due to the large Moslem audience, Frozen posters had sister Elsa & sister Anna wearing the hijab #foxnewsfacts pic.twitter.com/PXKYcx66fb
— Sanaa (@LiberatedSoul_) January 12, 2015
Burger King to open “Burqa King” chains for the growing number of Muslim female population in the UK #foxnewsfacts pic.twitter.com/6SVmyaLvzY
— PEW PEW PEW (@iyeezyk) January 12, 2015
Under British Sharia law, all jam pots are required to wear tiny headscarves. #FoxNewsFacts #Birmingham pic.twitter.com/A7ezbwu8uy
— ??????? ??????? (@RealistJavstah) January 12, 2015
Muslim doctors have been found to be injecting people with Islam instead of their flu vaccinations. #FoxNewsFacts
—.. (@dotfuz) January 12, 2015
Keystone Pipeline approved but only as trans continental waterslide #foxnewsfacts
— 5’7 Black Male (@absurdistwords) January 12, 2015
Black people are racist for standing up for themselves. #foxnewsfacts
— Que Webb (@SerengetiClone) January 12, 2015
Rachel Maddow has cooties. #foxnewsfacts
— Ernest III (@ErnmanSellsOut) January 12, 2015
“@NI_Anonymous_: Hipster beards are actually a ploy to convert Britain’s youth to Islam. #foxnewsfacts“@mathyoudickie
— Darren McGeown (@mcgoolanov) January 12, 2015
“@_NasrinAhmed_: Vehicles for muslim women, only here in the UK #foxnewsfacts pic.twitter.com/pTV9AXxvyb“
