The Free Press Corrects False Claim El-Sayed Gave Victory Speech in Arabic

The Free Press Deletes Video In Which Reporter Is Scared Of The Word "Habibi"

Olivia Reingold might be the most notably embarrassing employee at the Free Press, but her coworkers won't let her take that title without a fight. Last Wednesday, following the midterm elections, the outlet posted a video by a different staffer who characterized Abdul El-Sayed's victory speech, which he gave almost entirely in English, as being delivered in Arabic. By Sunday, that video was deleted. The publication announced the decision, which…

The Free Press corrects false claim El-Sayed gave victory speech in Arabic

The Free Press has corrected an opinion video that falsely described Abdul El-Sayed’s election victory speech as having been delivered in Arabic, The Independent has reported. The digital news outlet published the video on X on Wednesday, a day after Michigan’s senator-elect won his Senate race during a Democratic electoral sweep that delivered the party control of both chambers of Congress. In the video, Free Press reporter and host Maya Sulkin…

Gloves Off In Michigan: How Abdul El-Sayed’s Victory Speech Lit The Political World On Fire

Hours after Abdul El-Sayed made history as the first Muslim elected to the U.S. Senate, a celebratory victory speech in downtown Detroit set off a fiery public feud with a national cable news anchor. Taking the stage early Wednesday morning following his defeat of Trump-endorsed Republican Mike Rogers, the Michigan Democrat wasted little time settling […] Gloves Off In Michigan: How Abdul El-Sayed’s Victory Speech Lit The Political World On Fire

The Free Press issues correction over false claim about El-Sayed

A community note on X stated that just 0.27 percent of all the words spoken by El-Sayed during his speech were in Arabic

MAGA Outlet Retracts Lie About El-Sayed’s Speech

The Daily Beast reports: Bari Weiss’ opinion news site, The Free Press, has acknowledged an embarrassing error in its coverage of Abdul El-Sayed, the nation’s first Muslim senator-elect. In his victory speech Tuesday, El-Sayed pronounced his full name, Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed, and used three other Arabic expressions: “inshallah” (twice), “Alhamdulillah,” and “habibi.” The Free Press … The post MAGA Outlet Retracts Lie About El-Sayed’s Speec…

Free Press Forced To Issue Correction After Reporting Abdul El-Sayed Gave His Victory Speech ‘In Arabic’

screenshot The Free Press was forced to issue a correction after reporter Maya Sulkin erroneously said that Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed (D-MI) gave his victory speech “in Arabic.” On Wednesday, Sulkin posted to X, “Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed gave his victory speech in Arabic last night. Rep. Ilhan Omar addressed her victory party in Somali. And this morning, Iran’s supreme leader posted that America’s collapse ‘has accelerated.’ What should w…