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…
