“… there were at least two key failures. One was at GlobeNewswire, which published a release from a user impersonating WalMart; and one was at the Litecoin Foundation, which retweeted the news on Twitter, seeming to confirm it – despite it containing what we now know were fake quotes from Litecoin Foundation leadership…”
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2021/09/13/how-media-fell-for-a-lucrative-lie-about-walmart/
