#badjournalism — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #badjournalism, aggregated by home.social.
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"The much-loved festive event will again take place between the road opposite the entrance to Cabot Circus and Merchant Street..."
The road is Penn Street, if you'd bothered to look it up on a map.
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/first-glimpse-2026-broadmead-christmas-10955715
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Today's #BadJournalism howler: the return of the 'island' of #Gibraltar. 🤦♂️
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/06/uk-territory-gibraltar-dumps-raw-sewage-mediterranean
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"A separate request to the Food Standards Agency revealed the government quango “did conduct work on the strength of evidence for the effectiveness of interventions against campylobacter [a type of bacteria that can cause diarrhoea] at various stages of the food chain, this included a review of chemical treatments including studies performed in the USA."
WTF is a 'government quango' besides an #oxymoron?
The author is clearly unaware of what a quango is, i.e. a Quasi-Autonomous Non-Governmental Organisation. 🤦♂️
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/23/uk-us-chlorinated-chicken-foi-request
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"Bristol has taken the title of the ‘Ketamine Capital of Europe’ as some users have had to have their bladders removed due to execcive [sic] use of the drug."
#BadEnglish #BadJournalism #Bristol #BristolLive
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/bristol-named-europes-biggest-consumer-10919580
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No, Michael J. Fox isn’t dead — and he’s joking about it:
If the guy they say is dead is telling you he’s not dead, somebody fucked up. Sooooo stupid. Cheers to many more years, MJF!! #BadJournalism #WTF #NotDeadYet #EveryoneDies https://www.salon.com/2026/04/11/no-michael-j-fox-isnt-dead-and-hes-joking-about-it/
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Grauniad exclusive: #Bristol and #Gloucester move 8 miles further apart. 🤦♂️
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@upworthy.com Poor Journalism in that you've got 'Grease' mis-spelt at the top of the page. Or was that an AI thing you forgot to correct? #badjournalism #proofreading
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The Lion King and a choir: another slow news day for the #Shropshire Star's motoring correspondent.
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https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-887917
Classic example of #badjournalism #journalism
#selectionbias + #multitestingbias + #aihype
One would assume that journalists nowadays are still educated individuals and that they get a basic #statistics class, as part of their professional education.
Sure, come back to us when #grok predicts the lottery numbers reliably for 3 months; we are all interested in THAT prompt.
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:InDanger: However they also say:
R. A. Carlos recently reported on an alarming five-fold increase in the prevalence of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) on the island of Guam from 2016 to 2022. He reviewed 95 studies and concluded that the increased trend paralleled the widespread exposure of young children to microplastics.
and the citation given is to the abstract of a conference presentation which ACTUALLY says the author reviewed 95 studies for "neurotoxic effects of microplastics on other species, including fish, mice, mollusks, nematodes, crustaceans and chicken" not to find fricken autistic crustaceans but to find neurotoxicity.
But autism definitely isn't neurotoxicity in general, and probably isn't in any specific way.
So what we're left with is an observation of 5x ASD and plastics exposure on Guam. Is it not likely that whatever societal changes increased plastic use to skyrocket 5x also caused other seismic shifts in behaviour and exposure and - dare I guess - autism testing?
#autism #microplastics #nanoplastics #badJournalism #badScience #health #news #GlobeAndMail
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' Alec Karakatsanis, a civil rights lawyer who has studied and critiqued how the media has covered organized retail crime, said that the retraction underscored how some news organizations, which have extensively covered the issue of shoplifting, were “used as a tool by certain vested interests to gin up a lot of fear about this issue when, in fact, it was pretty clear all along that the facts didn’t add up.” '