"Stop using AI and start fact-checking," boils Ace Buchan.
British tabloid, the Daily Mail, a scrupulously honest journal famous for its well-trained journalists and balanced reporting, a small cog in the machinery of disseminating important information to the populace, is under fire tonight after mistakenly running a reel of Teahupoo that had been flipped thereby making it a righthander.
Headed, Surfer Tackles Towering Wave in Jaw-Dropping Footage, and viewed four million times or close enough to it, a who’s who of surfing quickly pounced on the error.
“This is why you can’t trust mainstream media,” Bali-based mogul and noted shredder Tai Buddha fumed.
“Stop using AI and start fact-checking,” boiled Ace Buchan, a man who beat Kelly Slater in a final there.
My dream right,” wrote Caio Ibelli.
“Teahupoo is now a right,” wrote sexy influencer Alex Hayes.
More,
“Wake up y’alls intern they flipped the footage and it’s sending the surf community (crazy emojis). Great engagement hack tho.”
Todd Richards, “Daily fail.”
Carve mag, “You had one job.”
The Daily Mail eventually got the message, flipped it back it to the wave’s usual orientation, but then faced a torrent of abuse from non-surfers unimpressed at the use of “Towering” in the headline.
Where is the towering wave at? I don’t see it. This small wave is towering?? Guess you haven’t been to Maverick’s
When you order a ‘towering wave’ from Temu
To me it looks like pretty standard surfing
Can’t win for losing, eh?