Did The New York Times publish an opinion article titled, "The Glorification of Luigi Mangione Is Inherently Anti-Israeli"? No, that's not true: A representative of The New York Times told Lead Stories that the organization "did not publish" such a headline. An image on social media showing the "Anti-Israeli" headline appeared to be digitally manipulated, as the original headline by The New York Times read, "What the Glorification of Luigi Mangione Reveals About America."
The claim appeared in a post on X (archived here) on December 12, 2024. It included an image that looked like a column by The New York Times titled, "Why the Glorification of Luigi Mangione Is Inherently Anti-Israeli."
The caption read:
Ok now you know this dudes innocent #LuigiMangione
This is how the post looked on X at the time of writing:
(Source: X screenshot taken on Fri Dec 12 15:07:18 2024 UTC)
Lead Stories reached out to The New York Times to verify the claim. Brian Latu, manager of corporate communications at The New York Times, responded to Lead Stories in a December 13, 2024, email, writing:
The New York Times did not publish this article or headline. You can see the original Opinion piece here.
Latu sent our newsroom a link (archived here) to the original article by The New York Times. Its headline read:
What the Glorification of Luigi Mangione Reveals About America
This is a screenshot of the genuine article published by The New York Times as it appeared on its original publication date, December 12, 2024.
(Source: X screenshot taken on Fri Dec 13 15:10:18 2024 UTC)
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