The standard is things that are known to be false. All reputable news orgs that I know have gone out of their way to stress that th Ghost of Kyiv is implausible on its face, though not known to be false—which goes above and beyond the standard.
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CBS should *absolutely* say that the mayor is wrong if they know it when it goes to air. If they get called on it and they tell YouTube to fuck off with their “cancel culture”-adjacent rules because they’re too good for that, of course they should get banned.
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They shouldn't have gone to air with it because other reliable sources which are monitoring radiation, like IAEA, said no radiation so far. To just report a unverified and false claim in this situation is irresponsible.
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But CBS did the right thing. They quoted the official accurately and then they provided context that his claim appears to be false and radiation levels do not appear to be rising! Which is all anybody’s asking for.pic.twitter.com/jQ0dDtIJsB
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The headline and deck doesn't convey any of that, and the norm now is not to repeat false information but to flag it as false in headline.
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