This is trash, @AP. Utter garbage. Shame on the “journalists” who wrote this (really? You needed 2 people to report out this garbage?) Also, you don’t even make clear that this lady is wrong. You treat it as a legitimate position. What the fuck is wrong with you? https://twitter.com/ap/status/1353361500623282176

Look at this. This treats both views as legitimate. Fucking garbage.

Have you learned nothing?! This is such bullshit. Why the fuck do I even bother trying to push back on bad journalism? No one in positions of power ever listen.

I used to think that bad journalism was mostly the result of honest mistakes, but the past few years have really hammered home for me how much it is intentional trash. Shame on @AP for that bullshit. Shame on @ABC for letting Rand Paul rant about his election conspiracy theories.

Seriously, @AP @ClaireGalofaro @JulietLinderman? You didn’t even bother to note that this lady’s delusions are false.

Here’s the thing about when the AP fucks up: it lives on forever. Because so many news outlets around the country run AP stories, even if they’re updated, the wrong info is still out there dozens of places. This is just so monumentally terrible.

And it’s clearly not just a couple of reporters who screwed up. Here’s AP’s deputy bureau chief sharing it. I am just speechless with how unbelievably reckless this is. @tackettdc, how do you justify running this?

And that wasn’t a rhetorical question, either, @tackettdc. I think it’s important to understand the decisions that went into that story.

For instance, why didn’t you bother to even note that the QAnon lady was wrong? The way this reads just treats everything as equally valid.

Here’s @tackettdc’s tweet promoting that article. https://twitter.com/tackettdc/status/1353362459244040195