Tucker Carlson appears to have been taken in by a prank concerning the closely edited Mom’s Day picture of Catherine, Princess of Wales, and her kids.YouTube pranksters Josh Pieters and Archie Manners claimed to have duped the previous Fox Information host into believing he’d scored an interview with a Kensington Palace digital content material producer who had been fired for poorly modifying the household’s picture. In a video posted on X on Thursday, the duo present Manners posing because the disgruntled worker, faking palace employment papers and engineering what’s ostensibly the “unique” of the now-infamous picture.Based on the video, the pretend employment contract Manners and Pieters drew up included a clause that stipulates that if an worker fails their probationary interval, the employer can amputate one limb of its selecting — a element that Carlson’s crew apparently didn’t discover.Learn moreManners was then interviewed by Carlson by way of teleconference from a studio in London. The duo instructed Deadline that they posted their video forward of Carlson as a result of they didn’t wish to unfold disinformation. Per Deadline:Manners mentioned he ‘stroked’ Carlson’s ego with the ‘bulls—’ declare that he was giving the previous Fox man the unique as a result of ‘mainstream media within the UK wouldn’t contact it.’The video has been seen greater than 1.2 million occasions on X, and Carlson has not posted the interview to his streaming service, the Tucker Carlson Community. (His community didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark from MSNBC.)Over time, Carlson has promoted debunked conspiracy theories and platformed ridiculous claims as a part of an try to craft a picture as a warrior who’s combating the “elite ruling class.” For instance, who might neglect his baffling interview with a person who claimed to have finished medicine and had intercourse with former President Barack Obama?It’s unclear if Carlson would’ve launched the interview had the pranksters not gone public with it, however it’s totally believable that he would’ve had no qualms about airing it — whether or not or not he believed it to be true.Clarissa-Jan Lim is a breaking/trending information blogger for MSNBC Digital. She was beforehand a senior reporter and editor at BuzzFeed Information.