Thread by @steffanwatkins

Update: Yes the RAF QRA fighters did launch AND intercept the Tu-160s before they turned around.

https://twitter.com/hthjones/status/1459182029627695109?t=OK02A6R_vAAJu33eAf7MXw&s=19

Agreed, @Reuters needs to fix this.

https://twitter.com/nukestrat/status/1459503901573582854?t=Nyu1QfSbNDNcR8IwvCnmjA&s=19

FYI, @Reuters has not yet made the required corrections to their article that would make it truthful and accurate. It was published over 24hrs ago, and syndicated worldwide, spreading their misinformation globally.

reuters.com/world/russian-…

The article is in contravention of the third Reuters Trust Principle, the one about providing reliable newswire services. This article contains misinformation and needs to be corrected. By failing to be accurate they are the cause of misinformation being spread globally.

TASS credits the Russian MoD, which is a primary source. The other three governments, and NATO, make *five* sources which all published statements in agreement; no incursions into soverign airspace occured.
tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/1…

If they're not in soverign airspace, they're exactly where they are supposed to be, in international airspace. These words matter, and each press release from each government was very careful and specific with their words, but the Reuters article was not.

You would expect The Daily Mirror to get it wrong, and they do, in their own unique first-day-on-the-job way.

https://twitter.com/DailyMirror/status/1459664120442146816?t=8claw-duJkp_SrqO_p29NA&s=19

"On Friday, the RAF said its Typhoons escorted two Russian Tu160 Blackjack bombers away from a ‘UK area of interest’ over the North Sea"

No, not "a" UK area of interest, it's THE UK Area Of Interest, their #ADIZ! The area extends hundreds of km from shore on every direction.

Now we have a problem; the misinformation published by @Reuters is contaminating the news. @SABCNews in South Africa has not deleted their tweet or deleted the syndicated article, which they paid for from Reuters, and they tweeted this lie as a result. 👇

https://twitter.com/SABCNews/status/1459227124276076551

Years from now some South African high school student will be researching how many airspace incursions there were and find this false @SABCNews story, syndicated from @Reuters, and then what? It becomes part of that kid's understanding of history, but it never happened.

The news media are the scribes of our time, and the lies they print, even accidentally, become "facts" when people forget about the context and errors of the time.

Unfortunately @USNews also got taken by the syndicated and inaccurate @Reuters newswire piece, and as far as I can tell, neither Reuters nor US News have any intention of notifying their readership they were lied to. This is how misinformation spreads.

usnews.com/news/world/art…

🇲🇾 As if the good Malaysians don't have better things to do, they're also being lied to by @fmtoday, not intentionally, but the lie doesn't care. This article is not accurate because it's based on misinformation that @reuters is spreading via newswire.
freemalaysiatoday.com/category/world…