Associated Press Tried to Stealth Edit a Fake News Story About Protests at Target

Target is receiving major backlash on their transgender clothing and accusations that the customers are the problem and not their far-left woke policies.

In the first week, Target lost ten billion dollars in market value. And it could get much worse. To add to their woes, the Associated Press claims that the protesters have gotten violent, but that is a lie. It never happened.

Target had an emergency meeting and took out the clothes designed by a Satanist and moved the rest to the back of the store. Originally, it was in front where everyone coming into their stores could not avoid seeing it.

Who is their chief marketer? Do they have the same one as Bud Light? When will they learn there are more of us normal people than there are men pretending to be women?

Will other companies learn from the Bud Light and Target debacles? I seriously doubt it.

Then, The Associated Press opted to publish what appears to be fake news about violent protests erupting at some Target locations. They then stealth-edited the article, not telling its readers that they made a change.

Here is the AP’s published conspiracy theory:

“Target removes some LGBTQ merchandise from stores ahead of June Pride month after threats to workers,” reads the fake headline. The story opens with these lies:

Target is removing certain items from its stores and making other changes to its LGBTQ merchandise nationwide ahead of Pride month, after an intense backlash from some customers including violent confrontations with its workers. 

The following day, the liars at the AP changed the story. Naturally, the story is still filled with unsupported allegations, but the AP’s conspiracy theories about threats and violence have been removed. But because the AP is a fake news outlet, no editor’s note explains the correction. The far-left hoaxsters are choosing to pretend it never happened. 

The new headline reads, “Target becomes latest company to suffer backlash for LGBTQ+ support, pulls some Pride month clothing”. 

Here is how the opening paragraph is stealthily rewritten: 

Since introducing this year’s collection, we’ve experienced threats impacting our team members’ sense of safety and well-being while at work,” Target said in a statement Tuesday.” Given these volatile circumstances, we are making adjustments to our plans, including removing items that have been at the center of the most significant confrontational behavior.”

This isn’t the first time AP has done this, and it won’t be the last. The AP had to stealth-edit a story about Amanda Gorman’s poem being banned from a school library. That too was a lie. The book was just moved to the middle school area because the whole book was too advanced for elementary students.

I see the @AP has (belatedly) stealth-edited its "book ban" report. The headline now reads: "Amanda Gorman’s poem for Biden’s inauguration barred for younger children by Florida school" (which is still inaccurate), and no correction.

Same story an hour ago: pic.twitter.com/RIJdkWIg91

— Ed Morrissey (@EdMorrissey) May 25, 2023

The books are still in the library, and the school hasn't restricted access to them. They just moved them to another section. https://t.co/7cUeworgFnhttps://t.co/BNyvaLEJKb

— Ed Morrissey (@EdMorrissey) May 25, 2023

So the headline is still inaccurate, the story is still inaccurate, and the @AP is changing it without any disclosure.

Other than that … great job.

— Ed Morrissey (@EdMorrissey) May 25, 2023

Here's the link to the @AP story that they stealth-edited. Still no note on the changes made, and it's still wildly inaccurate.https://t.co/b5TAUQtXwm

— Ed Morrissey (@EdMorrissey) May 26, 2023

And so it goes.