In an era of "fake news," this seems like an unnecessary error. Heat Street reports:
A video has been making the rounds on the web where a guy is watching TV and sees the same congresswoman on both MSNBC’s Hardball and CNN’s OutFront at the same time. Both networks claim to be live at the time (7:07pm EST on Wednesday), with a “live” tag clearly shown at the bottom right of the screen.
Either Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) has a super power of being able to duplicate herself -- and, really, I hope she wouldn't waste such a skill to simply appear more on TV -- or one of the networks was fibbing. Here's the video of the two simultaneous "live" appearances:
So which network was wrong? Internet sleuths found these two tweets from the Congresswoman's own account, which provided clues:
and this one:
In other words, the congresswoman's Twitter account showed exactly where she was -- and when. The time stamps of her tweets revealed which network got it wrong. Heat Street concluded, based on the Twitter time stamps:
"Well, turns out CNN is lying."
Everyone act shocked.

