Did Fox News publish an article by Thomas Barrabi with the title, "Biden admin to confiscate farm equipment, 'hoarded food' under new agriculture licensing policies"? No, this screenshot appears to be a fabricated hoax. An article with this title is not found in search engines, searches of the Fox News website, in the author's portfolio of stories, or in internet archive pages. The only place where this headline seems to exist is in this screenshot published on one Facebook page.
The screenshot originated in a post (archived here) where it was published by 'Here We Go' on January 25, 2021. The post was captioned:
ATTENTION! Under Biden our Farmers will suffer! Farmers love President Trump. The nation will see how being selected by the swamp rather than elected by the people can not stand and never happen again!#MAGAA Lets make America Great Again...Again!
POLITICS - Published 22 mins agoBiden admin to confiscate farm equipment, 'hoarded food' under new agriculture licensing policiesThe future of agriculture is a top concernBy Thomas Barrabi - Fox News
(Source: Facebook screenshot taken on Mon Jan 25 21:31:05 2021 UTC)
Lead Stories conducted searches with multiple search engines, searched internet archives, did advanced searches of the Fox News website and the purported author's list of articles on both FoxBusiness.com and FoxNews.com and were unable to find an article with this headline published by Fox News. A Fox spokesperson reached by phone January 25, 2021 confirmed that the screenshot is not real.
Below are images to compare the appearance of the fake screenshot (center) to a real screenshot of an article appearing on the Fox News website when viewed with a smartphone. On the left, the advanced search on the Fox website for videos and articles with the words "confiscate farm equipment," brings up zero results.
