Overview
- Labor Department data for February showed the U.S. lost 92,000 jobs as the unemployment rate rose to 4.4% from 4.3%.
- On Newsmax’s Wake Up America, Sharla McBride initially told viewers the economy added 92,000 jobs before a co-host corrected her, and she apologized for a scripted error as an on-screen graphic repeated the false claim.
- The network issued no separate retraction beyond the in-segment acknowledgment reported by other outlets.
- Mediaite reported that prior-month revisions weakened the picture further, with December revised down by 65,000 jobs to a net loss of about 17,000.
- Stocks fell following the report, with the Dow down roughly 900 points and the S&P 500 and Nasdaq each off about 1.6%.