Yesterday was April Fools’ Day. Looks like a prominent liberal business outlet did not get that memo and fell prey to a major climate change prank.
MarketWatch was forced to admit in its lede paragraph: “MarketWatch and other technology and investing sites misreported earlier Wednesday that Google parent Alphabet will cut ties with lobbyists and think tanks that deny accelerating man-made climate change.”
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The search giant Google had apparently “also reportedly announced plans to cut ties with fossil fuel sources. Except, it did not make that announcement.”
So, the initial report was literally #FakeNews.
“The posting was a prank put out by the New York City arm of a climate protest group, which has called out Google’s practices before,” MarketWatch said.
To be fair, MarketWatch did concede in a buried paragraph that it “should have given more scrutiny than usual to any release of this nature, no matter its apparent seriousness.” But it then proceeded to strangely push a bit of climate change propaganda along with its apology for its apparently mistaken coverage: “Such coverage is not fair to readers who are trying to discern the science-based facts on both coronavirus and the long-run effects of climate change. We can all be more responsible.” [Emphasis added.]
An apology for reporting #FakeNews is still an apology. Maybe the rest of the liberal “media gnat[s]”can learn a thing or two from Marketwatch about journalistic integrity.
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