'The View' Forced to Issue On-air Correction After False Claim About House Speaker Mike Johnson

During “The View” on Friday, co-host Sunny Hostin issued an on-air correction after she mischaracterized a report earlier in the show about new Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., using an app to discourage his son from viewing pornography…

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Hostin’s remark seemed to suggest that Johnson and his son were both aware of each other using porn, while the Speaker endorses biblical morality in the political sphere.

However, later in the episode, Hostin acknowledged that she mischaracterized the Rolling Stone report, which noted that Johnson was an “accountability partner” for his son in regard to porn, as an effort to discourage him from watching it.

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