Media: Drop in beer consumption due to Trump?
Consumption per person has declined since the 1980s, was stable for a while, and now, a majority of Americans view even drinking in moderation as bad for health.
Social: 58% of recent college grads are unemployed
The claim that 58% of recent graduate have no job is false, and comes about from a biased sample used in the survey.
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.
Propaganda works by combining believable info into untrue conclusions
An online meme notes that the % of “married”, “homeowners” is low. It is a real decline but they’ve combined 2 independent variables to make it look worse.
Social media propaganda poster has several errors
Another propaganda poster that is sort of embarrassing.
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: TIME Magazine selects its flawed Top 100 AI Innovators List
TIME Magazine does its usual “Top 100” thing and it’s the usual nonsense and irrelevant selection process. I covered this in depth in 2023.
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. This story is so bad, was it written by AI?
Propaganda: Poster illustrating growth in physicians versus administrators is flawed – Social Panic
I reviewed this bogus chart long ago. But it’s been making the rounds of social media once again – and the chart has been thoroughly debunked. Many MDs on Twitter are sharing this chart again – which demonstrates again that social media is primarily used to embarrass one’s self. Source: Propaganda: Poster illustrating growth in physicians versus administrators is flawed – Social Panic In addition to my take down of this flawed chart, here is another one: Join Me On…
Climate: How the media reported on tropical storm Hilary in California
The spin began with “deadly”, “life threatening”, “catastrophic” speculation, then followed that afterwards with “It wasn’t that bad”, and stories saying the tropical storm was 100% caused by the Global Boiling ClimateCrisis, and then a few adding historical context of past tropical storms and even a hurricane.