Quebec mosque shooting: Canada has Fox News delete false tweet, fails to press terrorism charges

‘Canada has pressured Fox News to delete a tweet falsely reporting the Moroccan origin of the perpetrator in the Quebec City mosque shooting. However, the suspected French-Canadian gunman of the “terrorist attack on Muslims” was not charged with terrorism.
The US news network apologized for publishing the tweet, which identified the suspect in the January 29 night attack as a man of Moroccan origin.
“FoxNews.com initially corrected the misreported information with a tweet and an update to the story on Monday. The earlier tweets have now been deleted,” Refet Kaplan, managing director at FoxNews.com, said in a statement. “We regret the error.”’
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