What the fuck is this tweet even? Not that journalists hold any standards to begin with, but would they legitimately make this a headline in a news story, no context? They're just dumping hot garbage onto twitter to pull in clicks and sit in the trending feed appearing as a statement of fact, knowing "fact checkers" aren't going to hold them accountable for a random tweet. Not going to the link, but obviously it will be some stupid opinion piece "Blah blah blah, predicts Mr. Election Expert".
So if I'm only to look at Twitter, I must assume ABC News are declaring themselves oracles that write news headlines from the future. Screencapping this for posterity.
What the fuck is this tweet even? Not that journalists hold any standards to begin with, but would they legitimately make this a headline in a news story, no context? They're just dumping hot garbage onto twitter to pull in clicks and sit in the trending feed appearing as a statement of fact, knowing "fact checkers" aren't going to hold them accountable for a random tweet. Not going to the link, but obviously it will be some stupid opinion piece "Blah blah blah, predicts Mr. Election Expert".
So if I'm only to look at Twitter, I must assume ABC News are declaring themselves oracles that write news headlines from the future. Screencapping this for posterity.