The CBS telecast of Sunday’s San Diego Chargers-Baltimore Ravens game experienced a moment of embarrassment after reporter Jamie Erdahl shared information she got from a fake Twitter account.
Erdahl reported during the fourth quarter that Steve Smith Sr. had a torn Achilles’ tendon. At the time, the team had not released the injury news, so Erdahl attributed the information to NFL Media’s Ian Rapoport.
The nice thing is Erdahl gave a competitor credit for the report. The bad thing is Rapoport never actually reported that news about Smith; Erdahl was quoting a fake Rapoport Twitter account. She later retracted:
Though it was embarrassing for CBS and Erdahl to get caught quoting a phony account, at least the information turned out to be accurate.