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Missouri Gov. Greitens Calls Out 'Fake News' Coverage of State Legislature's Special Session

Gov. Eric Greitens (R., Mo.) / Getty Images
July 6, 2017

Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens (R.) called out "fake news" coverage of the state legislature's special session to protect pregnancy care centers.

After Greitens called for the special session, several media outlets incorrectly reported on the legislation being considered. Greitens replied on Wednesday by tweeting out a video in which he called out the "fake news."

Greitens held up an article from Newsweek with the headline, "Use of Birth Control Could Cause Missouri Women to Lose Jobs and Housing"; an article from feministing.com titled, "Missouri Votes to Let Employers Fire People Who Use Birth Control"; and an article from the San Francisco Gate that said, "If Missouri lawmakers have their way, landlords will be able to evict tenants for having an abortion, getting pregnant while unmarried or even simply using birth control."

"Here's the thing about this: This is 100 percent false, it's actual fake news!" Greitens said. "They just made it up!"

"When we asked Newsweek to actually read the bill, they had to report that they had erroneously reported, as had Bustle, the Associated Press, and Feministing," Gretiens said. "They wrote that the bill was widely misinterpreted by the media, and their new headline said that 'women on birth control could not be barred from working,' the exact opposite of the fake news lie that they had been spreading before."

Greitens said that his video meant to take his message directly to the people because "the liberal media will spread lies about conservatives."