Media: Self-inflicted loss of trust in the media
Hype! Exaggeration! Scary Words! Just another day in media land!
He calls himself an “honest pollster”
Famous pollster who calls himself an “honest pollster” is not honest.
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: Frequently shared photos are misleading
A misleading image is shared to indicate that cities used to be beautiful and now they are ugly.
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.
Social media propaganda poster has several errors
Another propaganda poster that is sort of embarrassing.
Media: The headline is incorrect
The headline of a news story is a hallucination of an AI news generator – the claim is not true.
Update: 1 in 7 Americans do not go to bed hungry every night
Just updated this old post regarding the false claim that 1 in 7 Americans go to bed hungry each night. It’s total fiction.
Media: Canada’s “mass graves” story collapsed
Several years ago, the world erupted in anger over allegations that perhaps 1000s of indigeneous children had died in Canadian schools and were buried in unmarked graves. The story turned out not to be true.
Follow up: Newsweek “We are all socialists now”
Newsweek: We are all Socialists Now.