Media Breathlessly Covered a ‘Hate Crime’ by White Middle Schoolers Against a Black Classmate: It Was a Giant Hoax
Washington Free Beacon ^ | 2/2/26 | Eliana Johnson
Posted on 2/2/2026, 7:43:09 AM by Eleutheria5
When the mother of a black Texas middle schooler claimed in 2021 that a group of white students made her son drink urine, media outlets from NBC to CNN and ABC covered the story. “Texas authorities investigating allegations of racism and bullying of a 13-year-old by his classmates during sleepover,” a CNN headline blared. Nearly five years later, we’re learning it was a giant hoax. None of the outlets that covered the case have written follow-up stories despite the lurid (and defamatory) nature of the allegations...
Last month, a Texas district court judge in Collin County, in suburban Dallas, ordered the “victim’s” mother, Summer Smith, and her attorney, Kim Cole, to pay $3.2 million in damages to the white student they accused of bullying. A racially diverse jury ruled that they cooked up the allegations to raise their profiles and rake in nearly $120,000 in GoFundMe donations at the height of the BLM hysteria.
Mainstream media coverage was a key part of the plan. Smith and her son, along with Cole, discussed the hoax on Good Morning America, where co-anchor Linsey Davis promoted the GoFundMe to the ABC program’s millions of viewers, promising that funds raised would pay for “therapy and private schooling.” In fact, account statements show Smith spent the overwhelming majority of the funds on luxuries including “a designer dog, dining and travel, beauty products, liquor, vapes, cell phones, car payments, and rent,” our Andrew Kerr reports. Good Morning America has not followed up. Smith said she plans to appeal.
Kerr talked to the student who was falsely accused of organizing the attack, Asher Vann, who is now a college freshman.
“I was getting death threats from thousands of people on social media. People leaked my address and my name. ...
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