Fake New York Times headline circulates after new pope elected

Fri, 09 May 2025 18:11:35 +0000

After Robert Francis Prevost became Pope Leo XIV and the first pontiff from the United States, an image spread across social media that claimed to show a New York Times headline saying he helped establish an autonomous zone for demonstrators protesting police brutality in 2020 in Seattle, Washington. This is false; the newspaper told AFP the supposed is fabricated and was never published on its website.