The reporter accused of threatening to bomb Jewish centers in Manhattan was fired from The Intercept after conjuring up a fake cousin of white-hate mass murderer Dylann Roof for a story — and then tried to gain sympathy by claiming to be “feverishly struggling” from testicular cancer, according to reports.

Juan Thompson, 31, of St. Louis, Mo., pretended to land a big scoop for the online publication in June 2015 with one of the South Carolina gunman’s relatives, whom he identified as “Scott Roof,” reported the Riverfront Times, a weekly newspaper in Missouri.

The Intercept reporter claimed to have scored the exclusive interview with the man June 18.

During the purported chat, Roof’s cousin told Thompson that the then-19-year-old killer had been scorned by a former lover, who left him for a black man.

“Scott Roof, who identified himself as Dylann Roof’s cousin, told me over the telephone that ‘Dylann was normal until he started listening to that ‘white power music stuff,’ ” wrote Thompson, who is black. “He also claimed that ‘he kind of went over the edge when a girl he liked started dating a black guy two years back.'”

The story was picked up by countless media outlets across the country before The Intercept fired Thompson and revealed that it was a lie: Roof didn’t have a cousin named Scott.

Thompson first began writing for The Intercept roughly three months after Michael Brown was killed by Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson. In December 2014, he penned a piece titled, “No Justice, No Respect’: Why the Ferguson Riots Were Justified” — which described how protests broke out the night police announced that Wilson wouldn’t be criminally charged for the shooting.

In the story, Thompson claimed that he had been tear-gassed.

“My eyes burned and my lips felt as if my Chapstick had been contaminated with Wasabi paste,” he said. “As people scattered, someone in the crowd fired a gun into the air. Upon hearing the shots I instinctively hit the ground and cowered behind a car. Being raised in west St. Louis, I was taught to always kiss the floor when I hear the ‘pop, pop, pop’ of a gun.”

Thompson’s last story for The Intercept was in December 2015. He was fired in January 2016 after the outlet claimed to have “discovered a pattern of deception” in his actions.

“Thompson fabricated several quotes in his stories and created fake email accounts that he used to impersonate people, one of which was a Gmail account in my name,” Intercept editor-in-chief Betsy Reed explained in a statement on Feb. 2, 2016.

“An investigation into Thompson’s reporting turned up three instances in which quotes were attributed to people who said they had not been interviewed,” she said. “In other instances, quotes were attributed to individuals we could not reach, who could not remember speaking with him, or whose identities could not be confirmed.”

After he was fired, Thompson claimed in letters to his former bosses that he had been receiving treatment for testicular cancer.

“I’ve been feverishly struggling and figuring out how to pay for my treatment,” he wrote in one letter. “All of this, of course, has taken up my time and energy; except for the few moments I’ve spent searching for some relief.”

Throughout his time at The Intercept, Thompson also allegedly used quotes that could not be verified “from unnamed people whom he claimed to have encountered at public events,” Reed said.

“Thompson went to great lengths to deceive his editors, creating an email account to impersonate a source and lying about his reporting methods,” she wrote. “We apologize to the subjects of the stories; to the people who were falsely quoted; and to you, our readers. We are contacting news outlets that picked up the corrected stories to alert them to the problems.”

It’s unclear what initially led to The Intercept’s investigation.