OOPS! MarketWatch Falls Prey to Climate Change April Fools’ Day Prank

NewsBusters ^ | 4/2/2020 | Joseph Vazquez

[JV3MRC]

Yesterday was April Fools’ Day. Looks like a prominent liberal business outlet did not get that memo and fell prey to a major climate change prank. MarketWatch ran a story on April Fools’ Day originally headlined “Google will no longer pay lobbyists that deny climate change, pledges zero emissions by 2025.” The problem? The source for that story came from a parody account, according to a MarketWatch update. MarketWatch had to eat crow and updated its headline to apparently divert blame away from themselves towards the parody account: “An April Fools climate hoax in the middle of a pandemic.”

[Billthedrill]

A "practical joker" deserves applause for his wit according to his quality. Bastinado is about right. For exceptional wit one might grant keelhauling. But staking him out on an anthill should be reserved for the very wittiest.

Robert Heinlein

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Which basically shows that many websites with authoritative sounding names are often just recycled web-vomit with very little if any unique or valuable content.

[SunkenCiv]

Marketwatch needs to fire the jokers responsible for regurg'ing the BS.

[Bob434]

The4 climate change hysteria is all just one huge April fool’s joke- it’s a scam- that the whole world practically has fallen for

[Dacula]

In my opinion... MarketWatch is the National Enquirer of
stock market analysis. I trust them as much as Oilprice.com

[JimSp]

Market Watch, Business Insider, etc. Rubbish. All of ‘em.

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And they don’t check the veracity of their sources.