REDSTATE | Published November 20, 2024
Sometimes—actually, a lot lately—a news outlet faceplants so badly that you almost feel sorry for them. Almost.
It’s hard to feel sorry for Newsweek, though, because this fail is so stupid that you almost can’t help but laugh out loud. As our sister site Twitchy reported, the outlet decided a clearly joking tweet accompanied by an equally obviously AI-generated image was worthy of a fact check.
Do these people get paid for this?
Here’s how it went down: a user named “bone” posted to social media, saying, “This 1721 painting by Deitz Nuützen predicted the Trump-Elon-RFK McDonalds dinner.” You don’t even have to look any further to know that what follows next is either going to be a joke or the ravings of a lunatic.
In this case, the name of the “painter” (search for Deez Nutz if you don’t get it) should have set off the alarm bells of anyone with a clue:
You see this, you chortle, and you move on with your day—but not Newsweek. Bring on the fact-checkers!
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SOURCE: www.redstate.com
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NEWSWEEK | Published November 19, 2024
Auser on social media has claimed that a photo taken at the weekend of President-elect Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. eating McDonald’s was predicted in an 18th Century painting.
The photograph, which went viral on Sunday, showed Trump, Musk, Kennedy, and Donald Trump Jr. enjoying a McDonald’s meal aboard Trump’s plane Trump Force One, while House Speaker Mike Johnson stood in the background.
Margo Martin, Trump’s deputy director of communications, posted the photo to X (formerly Twitter) shortly after 2:30 a.m. on Sunday after the group’s trip to a UFC fight in New York City.
On Monday, X user @boneGPT reposted the image alongside an image which the user said was a painting from 1721.
“This 1721 painting by Deitz Nuützen predicted the Trump-Elon-RFK McDonalds dinner,” the user wrote.
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