{"id":107665,"date":"2023-02-01T15:15:02","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T20:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/?p=107665"},"modified":"2023-02-01T15:15:02","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T20:15:02","slug":"reuters-tries-but-gives-up-fact-checking-milloys-13-million-view-direct-hit-tweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/2023\/02\/reuters-tries-but-gives-up-fact-checking-milloys-13-million-view-direct-hit-tweet\/","title":{"rendered":"Reuters tries, but gives up fact-checking Milloy&#8217;s 13 million-view, direct-hit tweet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This e-mail from Reuters showed up a week ago about my <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JunkScience\/status\/1613724250011242497\">13-million view tweet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screen-Shot-2023-02-01-at-2.45.07-PM-728x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"363\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-107667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screen-Shot-2023-02-01-at-2.45.07-PM-728x400.png 728w, https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screen-Shot-2023-02-01-at-2.45.07-PM-300x165.png 300w, https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screen-Shot-2023-02-01-at-2.45.07-PM-768x422.png 768w, https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screen-Shot-2023-02-01-at-2.45.07-PM-1536x844.png 1536w, https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screen-Shot-2023-02-01-at-2.45.07-PM.png 1905w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>So I responded as follows:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screen-Shot-2023-02-01-at-2.49.46-PM-728x319.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"289\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-107668\" srcset=\"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screen-Shot-2023-02-01-at-2.49.46-PM-728x319.png 728w, https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screen-Shot-2023-02-01-at-2.49.46-PM-300x131.png 300w, https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screen-Shot-2023-02-01-at-2.49.46-PM-768x336.png 768w, https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screen-Shot-2023-02-01-at-2.49.46-PM-1536x672.png 1536w, https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screen-Shot-2023-02-01-at-2.49.46-PM.png 1867w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a week. There has been no published fact-check from Reuters. I pinged them about it. No response. Maybe they will do one. May be not. So far my tweet has collected bogus &#8216;fact checks&#8221; from the <a href=\"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/2023\/01\/milloy-climate-tweet-sets-twitter-abuzz-even-musk-admits-he-is-no-believer\/\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/2023\/01\/ap-falsely-fact-checks-milloys-13-million-view-tweet-about-8-years-of-no-warming\/\">Associated Press<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/2023\/01\/worldwide-milloy-13-million-view-tweets-sends-aussie-fake-news-media-into-meltdown\/\">Australian Associated Press<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/2023\/01\/milloy-13-million-view-tweet-makes-a-liar-of-factcheck-org\/\">FactCheck.org<\/a>. That tweet must have been a direct hit. The narrative has been sunk and the dead-enders are frantic. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This e-mail from Reuters showed up a week ago about my 13-million view tweet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Reuters tries, but gives up fact-checking Milloy's 13 million-view, direct-hit tweet","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-energy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6SqJi-s0x","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107665"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107670,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107665\/revisions\/107670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}