{"id":203936,"date":"2021-12-29T00:00:51","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T00:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/fact-check-fake-nyt-opinion-piece-on-teachers-and-bullying-of-unvaccinated-students"},"modified":"2021-12-29T00:00:51","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T00:00:51","slug":"fact-check-fake-nyt-opinion-piece-on-teachers-and-bullying-of-unvaccinated-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/fact-check-fake-nyt-opinion-piece-on-teachers-and-bullying-of-unvaccinated-students","title":{"rendered":"Fact check: Fake NYT opinion piece on teachers and bullying of unvaccinated students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The claim: An image shows a&nbsp;New York Times opinion article calling for teachers to permit bullying of unvaccinated students In late December, some social media users expressed outrage at&nbsp;a fake&nbsp;New York Times opinion piece about bullying students who are not vaccinated against COVID-19. &#8220;Teachers Should Tolerate Bullying Towards Unvaccinated Students,&#8221; reads the headline in the image, written in the newspaper&#8217;s signature font. &#8220;As heartless as it may sound, it may be the only way to encourage parents to make the right choice.&#8221; The screenshot was posted&nbsp;Dec. 22 by Facebook pages for the libertarian super PACs Right Now USA and Right Now MN . It also appeared in&nbsp;numerous other Twitter , Instagram and Facebook posts. Special access for subscribers! Click here to sign up for our fact-check text chat However, the screenshot does not show&nbsp;a real New York Times article. The newspaper told USA TODAY it has not published any articles&nbsp;encouraging teachers to allow bullying of unvaccinated students. &#8220;(The screenshot)&nbsp;was probably<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times told USA TODAY it did not publish an opinion article whose fake headline is featured in posts online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,1],"tags":[96,59,261,105],"class_list":["post-203936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-news","tag-education","tag-health","tag-journalism","tag-social-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}