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Kamala Harris is sworn in as US Vice-President during the 59th presidential inauguration at the US Capitol in Washington in January.
A long-time
New York Post reporter said she has resigned after being “ordered” to write a false story that claimed undocumented minors were being welcomed to the United States with copies of a children s book written by US Vice-President Kamala Harris. “The Kamala Harris story – an incorrect story I was ordered to write and which I failed to push back hard enough against – was my breaking point,” Laura Italiano tweeted on Tuesday afternoon (local time), several hours after her viral article about the books had been deleted from the
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New York Post reporter announced her resignation Tuesday, following swift criticism of an inaccurate story involving Vice President Kamala Harris.
The article in question originally suggested that Harris’ picture book was being put into “welcome kits” for migrant children at a Long Beach, California shelter a claim that ignited backlash among conservative lawmakers and political pundits; however, a Long Beach city spokesperson debunked the report in a statement to the
Washington Post this week, explaining a single copy of Harris’ book
Superheroes Are Everywhere was donated to the shelter as part of a book drive, and was not included in the welcome kits.
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“Today I handed in my resignation to my editors at the New York Post,” reporter Laura Italiano posted to Twitter on Tuesday afternoon. “The Kamala Harris story an incorrect story I was ordered to write and which I failed to push back hard enough against was my breaking point. It’s been a privilege to cover the City of New York for its liveliest, wittiest tabloid a paper filled with reporters and editors I admire deeply and hold as friends. I’m sad to leave.”.
Last week, the Post published a story claiming federal officials were distributing Vice President Kamala Harris’ book Superheroes Are Everywhere “in welcome kits” to migrant children held in a temporary immigration facility at the Long Beach convention center in Southern California.