Newsweek was forced to issue an update to an article it wrote about Tucker Carlson that claimed he launched his own show on Russian state television.

The original piece from Newsweek was titled “Tucker Carlson launches show on Russian state TV” and cited how footage of his show on X had been played on Russia 24 dubbed in the Russian language. As of Tuesday afternoon, however, the outlet has updated the piece to clarify that Carlson has made no such launch, changing the article’s title to “Tucker Carlson show aired by Russian state TV.”

“That Newsweek story is totally false,” read a statement from the Tucker Carlson Network’s head of programming given to the Washington Examiner. “Any use of our content by that channel is without legal permission.”

Likewise, TCN CEO Neil Patel wrote on X that the network “has not done any deals with state media in any country” and that the outlet claiming it had should have checked before publishing its story.

Russia state television airing clips from Carlson’s show comes a few months after he interviewed Russian President Vladimir Putin, marking the Kremlin’s first interview with a journalist based in the United States since the start of the war in Ukraine. During the interview, Putin claimed that the conflict between Russia and Ukraine had “an element of a civil war,” as Putin has previously claimed that the people of Russia and Ukraine are “one people.”

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Putin later stated that he did not get “full satisfaction” with his interview with Carlson, as he was expecting the talk show host to act more “aggressively” toward him and ask “so-called sharp questions.” The Kremlin did note he was taken aback by Carlson’s patience in the interview, something he was not expecting from “a Western journalist.” 

In December, Carlson launched his own streaming platform called the Tucker Carlson Network, which includes free interviews to watch and other interviews locked behind a monthly subscription.