Marilyn's Photos - June 27 2025 - Fake News - What Didn't Happen this week?

 

It was one of those "fake news" stories - Grandmother Eaten by Crocodiles - it got me thinking on whether there is a tracking of fake news every week, not just Snoops checking on fake news stories. Newsweek has a Fake News page.  Its latest story is April 29 2025 on Trump releasing a list of debunked "hoaxes" created by news and media outlets.  That wasn't what I was getting at, was it?    I did find a site that provides fact checking.  It is Media Bias Fact Check. "Media Bias Fact Check selects and publishes fact checks from around the world. We only utilize fact-checkers who are either a signatory of the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) or have been verified as credible by MBFC. Further, we review each fact check for accuracy before publishing. We fact-check the fact-checkers and let you know their bias.When appropriate, we explain the rating and/or offer our own rating if we disagree with the fact-checker. (D. Van Zandt)" Claim Codes: Red = Fact Check on a Right Claim, Blue = Fact Check on a Left Claim, Black = Not Political/Conspiracy/Pseudoscience/Other Fact Checker bias rating Codes: Red = Right-Leaning, Green = Least Biased, Blue = Left-Leaning, Black = Unrated by MBFC This isn't the fake news headline content that got me thinking.  "Grandmother eaten by crocodile."   And being a Canadian checking facts based on right-leaning, left-leaning seems problematic - wouldn't one need a factual way of deciding left vs right. What is clear is that this would be tedious work checking the headlines and news stories.  It brings home how much misleading information is published all the time.  And that is in addition to all those grandmother eaten by crocodile stories that have a shelf life of a decade or more so far. So instead we can detour to those headlines that have gone sideways with wrong meanings.  Here are a few: Iraqi Head Seeks Arms Something Went Wrong in Jet Crash, Expert Says Police Begin Campaign to Run Down Jaywalkers Enraged Cow Injures Farmer with Ax Farmer Bill Dies in House British Left Waffles on Falkland Islands Teacher Strikes Idle Kids Miners Refuse to Work after Death Juvenile Court to Try Shooting Defendant War Dims Hope for Peace If Strike Isn’t Settled Quickly, It May Last Awhile Cold Wave Linked to Temperatures Enfield (London) Couple Slain; Police Suspect Homicide Red Tape Holds Up New Bridges Man Struck By Lightning Faces Battery Charge New Study of Obesity Looks for Larger Test Group Astronaut Takes Blame for Gas in Spacecraft Kids Make Nutritious Snacks Chef Throws His Heart into Helping Feed Needy Local High School Dropouts Cut in Half Hospitals are Sued by 7 Foot Doctors Typhoon Rips Through Cemetery; Hundreds Dead Isn't that so much more satisfying?

This pretty view is at Biltmore Estate - America's largest house.

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