False Porn-on-CNN Report Shows How Quickly Fake News Spreads (usatoday.com)

Slashdot reader xtsigs writes: "No, despite what you read, CNN did not run porn for 30 minutes Thursday, as was reported by Fox News, the New York Post, Variety and other news organizations, several of which later corrected their stories," reports USA Today. The story goes on to explain how the story started (a single tweet), how it was quickly picked up by media outlets (without verifying if CNN actually did, in truth, broadcast porn), how it was then retracted by some outlets (but not others).

Other outlets jumped on the story of the story while, as of early Saturday morning some sites are still running the original story claiming CNN did, in fact, broadcast 30 minutes of porn.

Comments

Re:Clicks are all that matter

[SeaFox]

Looks like the Journalists are cutting our throats.

Don't kid yourself, "journalists" disappeared a decade ago. What you have now are "personalities" on TV and glorified bloggers in print.

Yeeehaw! This race to the bottom brought to you by Brawndo! The Thirst Mutilator!

Re:Demonstrating something we already knew.

[PopeRatzo]

I was taught in elementary school to check sources and not rely on a single source. Even (especially) wikipedia was to be questioned.

If you learned not to question Wikipedia in elementary school, that means I have moles on my ass that are older than you.

That's exactly what I needed this holiday weekend. Thanks a lot.