Some one posts a TikTok video claiming “Baby boomers” never had to deal with inflation and had it easy finding jobs. She is factually and logically wrong, but the media turns this into a viral story, without noting the Tiktoker was wrong. The TikToker demonstrated she knows nothing of history without saying she knows nothing of history. It’s not a good look!
84 million Americans are not going to lose access to Medicaid. The headline misrepresents what is actually happening in order to create a salacious, scary and untrue headline. This is the very definition of yellow journalism.
UPI puts out a typical fear inducing propaganda piece of climate change – and its wrong before they even get to the first paragraph. Their photo illustration of Antarctica is, in their own database, an ice field on Svalbard, located near the North Pole – in the Arctic. But who needs accuracy when talking about climate change right? Just making stuff up encourages people to trust you, right?
FastCompany publishes a fabricated fake news story about “Twitter’s new Blue Check logo” – except this new logo, supposedly just introduced in December of 2022, was actually introduced in November of 2021. Like a whole year ago. UPDATE: They’ve acknowledged they were a year out of date.
Local TV News KTVZ, Bend, Oregon published a report that 10 seconds of fact checking would have been detected as an erroneous news report. While about 80% of flights were canceled due to a heavy snowstorm, they ran a report saying the snowplows worked great and “no commercial flights were impacted”. WHAT?