A French Canadian university student was the sole suspect in a shooting at a Quebec City mosque. (Facebook via Canadian Broadcasting Corp.)In the first chaotic hours after the Quebec City mosque massacre, police detained two men: a French Canadian and one born in Morocco. “As I predicted last night, the shooters in the Quebec mosque attack are Muslim, as is generally the case in these circumstances,” blogger Pamela Geller wrote, linking to the Fox Story. [Student known for far-right sympathies charged in Quebec City mosque attack]It's hardly the first time an innocent person was caught up in the media scramble that follows major violence. But Fox didn't seem in any hurry to take down its old tweet about the Moroccan mosque suspect, which kept being shared for another day — until the leadership of Canada took offense.

Source: Washington Post February 01, 2017 22:20 UTC