Two Daily Kos diaries picked up the rumor in March that the South Carolina governor might be indicted for taxes.
The New York Times reports that rumor is false. The Times' article also names Daily Kos as one of the news outlets that picked up the anonymously sourced rumor that turns out to be fake.
The only evidence of the "impending indictment" presented by the blog, the Palmetto Public Record where the fake news originated is this routine letter from the IRS saying the IRS made an appointment to look over the books for the year 2009 at the Sikh temple, which is connected to Haley's family.
I see nothing at that website correcting the record, despite being called out by the NYT.
The two Daily Kos diaries that published the rumor are Breaking Is Nikki Haley About To Be Indicted on Fed Tax Charges and Haley Indictment imminient (sic for the bad spelling of imminent).
It is important to add this correction to the dKos database because we are a fact-based community.
Two elements should have given dKos writers pause is that (1) the rumor was anonymously sourced; and (2) "The blog's editor, Logan Smith, never asked the governor's office for comment before he posted his report," the NYT reporter Jeremy W. Peters wrote.
According to the Times, the fake news spread wildly on Twitter, some mainstream news outlets, including the Washington Post and CBS News, and some blogs, including Huffington Post and BuzzFeed.
The Times also noted that Haley "has lived with an unfounded blog report of marital infidelity since before she took office."