One of the biggest names on Fox News was forced to issue an embarrassing on-air apology after Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary pushed a completely unsubstantiated claim during her show.
Maria Bartiromo interrupted her Fox Business Network show on Friday morning to issue a humiliating public apology for O’Leary, who falsely suggested in May that opponents of his Utah data center were being funded by China.
“Mr. O’Leary has now corrected the record and explained that he has no evidence that the Alliance for a Better Utah, Elevate Strategies, Josh Kanter, Taylor Knuth, or Gabriel Finlayson are funded by China or the Chinese Communist Party,” Bartiromo said.
“Fox News Media is likewise aware of no evidence that they are funded by, acting at the direction of, or coordinating with Chinese interests in opposing Kevin O’Leary’s project. Fox News Media apologizes for the error.”
Bartiromo also displayed on-screen the retraction O’Leary issued on social media, in which he clarified that he had “no evidence” that people objecting to the mammoth data center project have ties to or are being funded by China.
Unlike Bartiromo, O’Leary did not actually apologize for pushing the false claims about the opponents of the Utah project.
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