White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre stormed out of a press briefing after Today News Africa reporter Simon Ateba demanded to know why he wasn't allowed to ask a question.
Fox News headlines reach people who don’t read Fox News. Don’t underestimate the tendency of people to stubbornly stick to the story they first heard as fact.
Good. Each time they lie they get caught, like this ‘non-news’ story. Some rude reporter was being a dick and she politely walked away.
To Fox News, that’s CRAAAAZY. For everyone else, “ooh… normal behavior. Cool”
Fox News headlines reach people who don’t read Fox News. Don’t underestimate the tendency of people to stubbornly stick to the story they first heard as fact.
This. They don’t need help spreading their lies to the gullible, and we should always take pause before posting rage bait without context.
Lemmy and the larger Fediverse have their own fair share of rubes, after all.