Reuters fact-checking is so low on the totem pole of anybody giving a shit that I only just saw that the article was fact-checked by them a year later. Pathetic. Reuters seems to be the news source that veritably every other news source gets their "news" from. Think about that for a moment. Why would a respected news institution like Reuters have a team addressing such trite subject matter? Check out the links above to peruse some of the other silly items Reuters has deemed necessary to fact-check. One of the items fact-checked by Reuters is listed as "Pedophiles Control America".
I'll just leave that there.
Consider that Reuters is supposed to be at the top of the food chain in journalism. Why would a "Trusted" news source use their extraordinarily abundant resources to fact-check mostly satire from around social media, and an article from this website (debarelli.com) no less where I debunked the Tom Hanks BBC Headline referenced by Reuters. Below is the archived version of my website that Reuters attached to their "fact-check". I have no reason to think that it is not the actual article that I wrote a year ago.
Also, listed below is the actual article that I wrote telling folks to not be so easily fooled by a headline or post. Ironically. Reuters either purposefully twisted the intent of the article by cherry picking it or their illustrious staff failed to read the entire article. It is difficult to take journalists and/or news outlets seriously in our troubling times. This fact-check by an ostensibly respected News institution like Reuters seriously underscores that fact.
I don't trust journalists. I don't trust institutions. I don't trust any news sources. Of course.
