Atlantic Magazine misleads readers with fictional story presented as reality
An essay in The Atlantic describes a mother who loses a son to measles. It’s presented as a true story – except it was entirely fake.
Media: BBC admits to misleading Great Barrier Reef story
Oops.
Media: How the media reported it versus reality check
“Irish man held in ICE says he fears for his life” and is missing his wife. Then read the real story. He’s wanted on drug charges in Ireland and abandoned his kids.
Media: Seattle Times Makes Up Climate News, says atmospheric scientist
An entire team of reporters at the Seattle Times “ClimateLab” and none have a degree in a STEM subject. They are all “story tellers”.
Why do “plant-based” eating stories dominate media coverage of nutrition/dieting/eating?
Media stories about “plant-based eating” are 5 to 10x more common than the percent of people who actually eat that way.
Social: The serious problem and challenge of misinformation on social media
Misinformation (things that are not true) is widespread on social media. Often heavily promoted, untrue claims become viewed as “truth”. There is no easy solution to this problem.
Europeans claim U.S. has banned 23,000 books
But it is not true. Not even close.
Financial idiocy on X
Read the Community Notes correction …
Everything is awful: Doomerism in the headlines
The media: Everything is awful and something bad happened to someone, sometime, someplace.
Social: More idiocy on X
The idiocy on X is off scale.