June 22 (Reuters) - Reuters denied on Saturday that it had reported that Israel would attack Lebanon within 48 hours, after reports circulated on social media citing the news agency as saying this.

“Any claims that Reuters reported that Israel will attack Lebanon within the next 48 hours are false. Reuters did not report this,” a Reuters spokesperson said.

    • @chemical_cutthroat
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      105 months ago

      Reuters and AP News are really the only two sources I pretty much implicitly trust anymore. As far as I’m concerned, the person reporting false news and attributing it to Reuters should be hung by the neck until dead.

      • BigFig
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        75 months ago

        What’s really frustrating is how many American news outlets are just taking AP and Reuters reports, and rehashing them with their own news readers.

      • @[email protected]
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        5 months ago

        Jsyk in this specific context it’s hanged. Weird right?

        Like:

        Hanged from the neck until death

    • @[email protected]
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      75 months ago

      I trust Reuters more than I trust Media Bias Fact Check. I of course still vary my media diet, but they’re certainly a pillar of it.

      Seem to remember that they had a big scandal with a climate change denier editor that changed some articles a few years ago. Good to remember that no oragnisation is above scrutiny.

    • Flying SquidM
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      15 months ago

      In this case, I don’t think its credibility matters beyond whether or not they’d lie about not actually saying something people claimed they said.