{"id":21255,"date":"2026-07-25T17:56:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T01:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/?p=21255"},"modified":"2026-07-25T17:57:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T01:57:22","slug":"media-bloomberg-publishes-fake-story-sourced-to-anonymous-troll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2026\/07\/25\/media-bloomberg-publishes-fake-story-sourced-to-anonymous-troll\/","title":{"rendered":"Media: Bloomberg publishes fake story sourced to anonymous troll"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Random person poses as an anonymous SpaceX engineer and shares fake story with legacy media outlets &#8211; and Bloomberg published the untrue story without attempting to verify anything: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-x wp-block-embed-x\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Legacy media exposed! <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@elonmusk<\/a> <br><br>A major legacy media outlet published an article about SpaceX based on false information I sent from a fake email address.<br><br>They didn&#39;t verify the information and even cited me as &quot;people familiar with the matter.&quot;<br><br>1\/n <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AQI8n2IIFl\">pic.twitter.com\/AQI8n2IIFl<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Yatharth Mann (@yatharthmann) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/yatharthmann\/status\/2081016902890168741?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 25, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I assume that 100% of the news stories are false, as the starting point. I assume all reporters are unethical liars and work from there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[366,355,17,24,29,352,39,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-content-mill-crap","category-content-mill-click-bait","category-facts","category-in-practice","category-media","category-misinformation","category-fake-news","category-fictional-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21257,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21255\/revisions\/21257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}