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The New York Post reporter whose byline was attached to a false story that kicked off a days-long right-wing media outrage cycle has quit.
"Today I handed in my resignation to my editors at the New York Post," reporter Laura Italiano posted to Twitter on Tuesday afternoon. "The Kamala Harris story-an incorrect story I was ordered to write and which I failed to push back hard enough against-was my breaking point. It's been a privilege to cover the City of New York for its liveliest, wittiest tabloid-a paper filled with reporters and editors I admire deeply and hold as friends. I'm sad to leave."
Last week, the Post published a story claiming federal officials were distributing Vice President Kamala Harris' book Superheroes Are Everywhere "in welcome kits" to migrant children held in a temporary immigration facility at the Long Beach convention center in Southern California.
The story, which appeared to be based on a single photograph spotted at the facility, was parroted in Fox News and blew up among conservative media outlets. One reporter from Fox even posed a question about the book to White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki during a press briefing last week.
But within days, the story collapsed.
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