Tucker Carlson appears to have been taken in by a prank concerning the closely edited Mom’s Day photograph of Catherine, Princess of Wales, and her youngsters.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 enhancing the household’s photograph. 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 “authentic” of the now-infamous photograph.In accordance with the video, the faux 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 group apparently didn’t discover.Manners was then interviewed by Carlson by way of teleconference from a studio in London. The duo informed Deadline that they posted their video forward of Carlson as a result of they didn’t wish to unfold disinformation. Per Deadline:Manners stated 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 considered 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 and craft a picture as a warrior who’s preventing the “elite ruling class.” For instance, who may neglect his baffling interview with a person who claimed to have achieved 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, but it surely’s solely believable that he would’ve had no qualms about airing it — whether or not or not he believed it to be true.