A fake screencap– supposedly of a tweet sent by CNN host Jake Tapper— made the rounds on Wednesday morning on alt-right and pro-WikiLeaks Twitter.

In the fake tweet, Tapper supposedly called for the execution of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Needless to say, he didn’t actually say anything of the sort (and the blurriness of parts of the image makes that obvious). But that didn’t stop the image from going viral.

So @jaketapper called for the CIA to “take down” Assange and then deletes it. Hate to break it to you Jake, but screen shots are forever! pic.twitter.com/fXmKq3qX34 — DeplorableMidwestGal (@gal_deplorable) March 8, 2017

Whoa! @jaketapper is this you sir? ?calling for the assassination of Julian Assange just like Hillary did way back. #InternationalWomensDay pic.twitter.com/Zypa3e51Zi — ?TruthMatters? (@JeffMontes5) March 8, 2017

Demonstrating what today’s media is really about, Jake Tapper calls for the assassination of the one source of true news. pic.twitter.com/0XYVmw7dbe — Philip Schuyler (@FiveRights) March 8, 2017

And so on. Eventually Tapper weighed in and confirmed that the screencap was fake.

Here we go again with another lie making the rounds on twitter. Never wrote this; never even thought it & we’ve been covering #vault7 https://t.co/URewyWWFP9 — Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) March 8, 2017

The false story comes after alt-right Twitter users also spread audio claiming that it was Tapper using a racial slur. In fact, it was audio of Dog the Bounty Hunter.

[Image via screengrab]

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