He calls himself an “honest pollster”
Famous pollster who calls himself an “honest pollster” is not honest.
Social: Telling a straight up lie for propaganda
Photos of people sunbathing are presented as an illustration of lazy American workers, cutting work. But that is not what the photos show – in fact, its college students just after the spring semester ended.
Media made up false Google GMail security warning
Reports that 2.5 billion Gmail users might be hacked were fake news.
Media: Where idiocy runs rampant
“JournOList” creator says the pandemic was ended by vaccines. Uh, nope. Per the CDC, by mid-2023, almost 4 out of 5 adults in the US had had Covid-19.
Media: Another fake “died from heat” story
Another story alleging a death due to heat – except it was 82 deg F at 6 pm at the time the subject had a heart attack. This mistake has been made before, when a runner died on a day with “triple digit” temperatures. Except the race began at 5 am and temperatures were in the low 70s during the race. Details matter.
Media: “It’s impossible to say” but we will say it anyway
It’s impossible to make this claim, says ABC News, but we will make it anyway…
Media: “Camp Mystic girls had a safe haven by the river for 100 years. Then, the flood came.”
Except the camp has flooded numerous times. Was that really a “safe haven”?
Follow up: Newsweek “We are all socialists now”
Newsweek: We are all Socialists Now.
Climate: How to mislead with a chart
The way this chart is constructed, it makes it look like all the major economies are expanding their carbon emissions. But they are not.
Media: “Only 14 states where you can afford home on less than $75,000/year”
Hard to tell if the media likes to lie or is just incompetent or both. Once again, they media dweebs botch a story. This might have been written by AI.