Media: UPI does it again, dumb error

Media: UPI does it again, dumb error

More than half of Antarctica’s native species will likely disappear by the end of the century if global warming continues at its current pace, according to new research published Thursday.

Source: More than half of Antarctica’s plants, animals could disappear due to climate change – UPI.com

Here’s their story illustration showing a glacier in “Antarctica” (it’s not)

Here is the UPI’s own photo database – this is a photograph of a glacial area on Svalbard, in the Arctic region close to the North pole.

But hey, accuracy is no big deal when you are a global media platform intent on stamping out misinformation and disinformation, right?

When they mess up this badly – so much of the time – how can we trust anything said by journalists and their “layers and layers” of fact checkers?

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