Yesterday, I wrote a piece about the purported identity of the victim of the New York subway burning attack, a woman who had been set on fire and killed by an illegal alien.
A minor news outlet alongside major trending on Twitter had reported that her name was Amelia Carter, running a photo and purported social media posts.
Twitter Community Notes says that's not true:
????BREAKING: The NYC Subway Burning Victim was 29 years old, Amelia Carter. She's a graduate of SUNY Purchase and obtaining her PhD from UPenn.
— AJ Huber (@Huberton) December 23, 2024
RIP Amelia Carter! Death Penalty for the Guatemalan illegal, Sebastian Zapeta.
Remember: Dems wanted to jail hero Daniel Penny! pic.twitter.com/lwcGdtTRG3
The "trending" is still going despite this and people are still posting this erroneous information.
But it's fake news, put out by some fraudster. I should have been more skeptical here, not seeing it from a more reliable media outlet, or confirming it from more than those sources. Mea culpa. I pulled the piece and regret the error.
Image: Pixabay, via Wikimedia Commons // CC0 public domain
