In this week's Facts Matter column, Bob Oswald explores claims that Michael Jordan has ended his partnership with Nike, Tucker Carlson took his own life, the Arctic ice sheet is not melting and more.
Recent social media posts claim Basketball Hall of Famer and Chicago Bulls legend Michael Jordan is walking away from his partnership with Nike, due to the sports apparel company's collaboration with transgender social media personality Dylan Mulvaney.
The fabricated article, by Flagg Eagleton -- Patriot, first appeared on the site Patriot Party Press, part of a network of sites called America's Last Line of Defense, which has previously published fake stories. A story it published in 2018 claimed Jordan was leaving the board of directors at Nike. Jordan has never been part of Nike's board.
by signing up you agree to our terms of service A screenshot posted on Twitter includes the topper"CNN BUSINESS," the bylines of two actual CNN reporters, and the headline,"Former Fox News Anchor Tucker Carlson has died from suicide."
Fellow skeptic Don Easterbrook, also featured in the video, concurred:"There's not melting going on in the first place. It's actually growing."
The National Snow and Ice Data Center, at the University of Colorado, Boulder, in March reported that the Antarctic Peninsula has been in"an intense melt season" since November 2022.
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