CNN's Tweet Faux Pas

CNN’s Political Ticker accidentally cleared the wrong brother today in a “breaking news” tweet today, saying prosecutors had dropped charges against Rod Blagojevich, when in fact it was Robert, brother of the ex-Illinois governor.

The network quickly corrected itself on Twitter.

* This post was updated. We too had our brothers backwards in the original post.

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