News reports were awash in misinformation following an explosion at the Canada-U.S. border crossing at Rainbow Bridge near Niagara Falls.
Some U.S. media began describing it as a terrorist explosion, caused by a vehicle entering from Canada.
Every element of that preceding sentence was dispelled within hours as flat-out wrong.
There was no attack from Canada; the incident occurred entirely on U.S. soil; in fact, authorities don’t believe it was a terrorist attack at all.
That didn’t stop a candidate for president of the United States from appearing on Fox News to promote an aspect of his platform: Building a border wall with Canada.
“Reporting fiction as fact” is basically the business statement of Fox News.
Hey now. They’re completely fair and balanced between fact and fiction, fully willing to employ both as needed.
“A presidential candidate…”
*Assumes its Trump*
“Ramaswamy”
Oh…
Tbf, with Canada getting more on top of Caste discrimination it’s no small wonder Ramaswamy would want to keep them as far away from him as possible
The Canadian opposition leader also made the same claim.
Media corporations will do/say anything to get more clicks. It doesn’t matter if it’s substantiated or not.
There’s southern border wall stupid, and then there’s northern border wall stupid on slits in clown makeup. Anyway, the whole business model of right wing media is reporting misinformation as if it were true.
people were saying even on here that they saw explosives in the car so they flagged them for additional inspection or something??? you really can’t rely on anything without significant independent corroboration
i’d say potentially here you need to be MORE careful… considering the open and volunteer nature of the fediverse, it’s pretty hard to control information, which makes MISinformation really easy to propagate
In other news, water is good for humans
Look at him use both of those tiny hands to drink the bleach. Pfft
Ahh, we can only hope for this reality
Official reports called it at least a possible terrorist attack at first, I don’t really blame people for reporting it as a terrorist attack.
The real problem was the further reaction…people bringing up the religion of the driver and making broad declarations about “why he did it” and “CLOSE THE BORDER” trending on Twitter. Just a wild immediate overreaction to a guy in a car crash.
The news reporting a possible thing as a fact is something we should blame them for.
Well, calling it something that it isn’t before all facts are in isn’t how reporting is supposed tonwork.
Exactly, it wasn’t even the words of an authority that got carried away. No one said “possible terrorist attack”. That phrase was 100% the fabrication of media. It didn’t even crossed the minds of the authorities investigating the incident.
And had they reported it as “officials say it may have been” instead of “IT WAS 100% DEFINITELY A TERRORIST ATTACK FROM THE GAYCHINESECOMMUNOISLAMISTS” it wouldn’t be a problem
Official reports called it at least a possible terrorist attack at first, I don’t really blame people for reporting it as a terrorist attack.
Reporting is as a DEFINITE Islamic terror attack is something I blame people for. Sure, it is where people’s minds naturally went, but posting shit like “WE ARE AT WAR” coming from leading politicians and news commentators was flat out wrong.
Yeah, I watched some clips of the reporting. It was way beyond “this was probably a terrorist attack” fearmongering, and went clearly into the area of bigotry against “them.”
@snaptastic Please let me know whether this comment meets your relevancy standards.
