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There’s not much reason to respect the Associated Press (AP), which routinely publishes left-wing propaganda disguised as journalism. But if there’s any reason to give the outlet respect, it’s that they will never let facts get in their way of pushing a narrative they care about. This time, the outlet has turned a story about a black woman’s alleged murder at the hands of a black man into a story about racist lynchings.

“The death of Tasia Fortune, a Black Mississippi woman found hanging from a tree on Aug. 3, has stirred distressing memories of the grim history of lynchings across the U.S. South,” The AP posted on X. The implication was clear: a black woman found hanging is a symbol of racism and that the South is racist. Fortune’s death was tragic. Her body was found hanging behind an abandoned home in Jackson, Mississippi.

The only problem for the AP’s narrative is that Fortune’s alleged killer had already been arrested before the AP put out the disingenuous tweet suggesting there was a racist element in her killing, and her alleged killer is also black.

The AP themselves knew this key fact too, having released an article three full days before trying to connect Fortune’s death to racism that acknowledged authorities arrested Jarques Ratliff — a black man. In fact, the AP reported that Fortune’s mother “doesn’t believe race had anything........

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