It’s not hard to find anti-abortion misinformation on Fox News, particularly the network’s persistent suggestion that abortion rights are unpopular. But in the past year, Fox has found a new source of evidence to support this inaccurate allegation: Tweets from random users responding to other right-wing media outlets' abortion-related stories.

Fox has demonstrated time and again that it does not prioritize accurate reporting on abortion. In addition to the frequent anti-choice commentary from network hosts and guests, Fox has also been airing a curated selection of tweets, almost all of which were posted in response to abortion-related articles from right-wing media outlets. By airing cherry-picked tweets, the network is amplifying a selection of voices from the conservative media ecosystem to create the illusion that there’s widespread opposition to abortion rights. There isn’t.

Media Matters searched Fox News segments from January 1, 2019 through July 31, 2019 and found 15 instances of the network airing tweets in conversations about reproductive rights. Of those, only two represented a pro-choice view. Five of the tweets in question belong to accounts that have gone private since the posts were aired on Fox (limiting available data), but of the 10 remaining tweets, five had no interactions from other users. Of the five tweets that did have interactions, none had garnered more than four retweets, bringing into question both their newsworthiness and representativeness of public opinion. Many of these tweets added little value to the segments during which they were aired, such as the following tweet that was included in a story about Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s (D-NY) positions on abortion: