Jane Slater responds to viral submit about her dying in ‘tragic incident’
Jane Slater is likely one of the prime Cowboys reporters — and now she’s clearing up some faux information about herself.
The 45-year-old NFL Community reporter, who primarily covers the Cowboys, responded on Sunday to a bogus report that claimed she had been killed in a “tragic home violence incident.”
“I don’t assume so? However does this imply there may be glitch within the matrix? I’m gonna wrap myself in bubble wrap till NYE,” Slater mentioned responding to a fan who requested if she was nonetheless alive whereas linking to the report.
The submit from “Star Nation” had been going viral on Fb after being put up on Saturday.
It speaks to the hazards of how fabricated tales can unfold so simply on social media networks with little consequence.
Slater, although, did the truth is work this weekend and had the small print on Trevon Diggs’ prolonged absence from the Cowboys — reporting that Diggs missed a majority of the season after a TV he was making an attempt to mount fell on him.
In line with Slater, Diggs felt the necessity to handle it since “hypothesis on the web went means too far.”
The Cowboys have been eradicated from playoff competition with the Eagles win over the Commanders on Saturday night time then fell 34-17 to the Chargers on Sunday.
“Right this moment’s postgame felt like an finish of the season one-yet two extra video games to go. There have been lengthy seasons-this has felt further lengthy,” Slater wrote after the defeat.
She isn’t the primary well-known media persona this 12 months to be swept up in a disturbing social media rumor.
The YES Community was pressured to place out an announcement final month that analyst and longtime Yankees outfielder Paul O’Neill didn’t have most cancers, regardless of rumors floating round on Fb.
