Fox Business host ‘punk’d’ by animal rights activist pretending to be CEO of pork producer

Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo told her viewers that she was punk’d, after being duped into interviewing an animal rights activist masquerading as the CEO of a food-processing company for her show on Wednesday.

During the segment on “Mornings with Maria Bartiromo,” the anchor presented the impersonator as Dennis Organ, the CEO of the pork producer and food-processing company Smithfield Foods.

But unbeknownst to her, Bartiromo was actually speaking to animal rights group Direct Action Everywhere activist Matt Johnson who did not break from character during the six-minutes-long interview, as he spoke of the process of coronavirus vaccines being distributed to food workers at the company.

Posing as the CEO of Chinese-owned Smithfield Foods, a self-proclaimed world’s largest pork producer, Johnson took a dig at the company as posing a “serious threat in bringing about the next pandemic."