“We await your update to your late evening reports,” Kelly wrote on the X social media platform on Wednesday, tagging the cable news outfit and the Atlanta-based daily newspaper.

“You can cite us as first with texts in the #FaniWillis case. Not only did you not have an ‘exclusive,’ it took you all day to match our reporting.”

An AJC spokesperson told The Post: “As our readers know, our reporters have been covering this story for the past two years, including independently obtaining and verifying the text messages directly from our sources, which we did not portray as exclusive.”  ...

A CNN spokesperson told The Post that the network has changed the text of its online story to reflect that Kelly was the first to report the existence of the texts.