A spokesperson for The Atlantic said the image shared on social media is “fabricated and not an actual Atlantic article.”
Several days after the U.S. Commerce Department reported that the nation’s gross domestic product (GDP) had declined for the second quarter in a row, people on Twitter began sharing an image of a headline about the economy under President Joe Biden.
The image appears to show the news magazine The Atlantic’s masthead with an article titled: “The Quiet Courage of Biden’s Negative Growth Economy,” written by the author Tim Nichols.
Matt Rinaldi, who serves as chairman of the Republican Party of Texas, and political commentator Dinesh D’Souza are among those who shared the image on Twitter.
“This is NOT a parody,” D’Souza wrote on July 29.
THE QUESTION
Did The Atlantic publish an article titled: “The Quiet Courage of Biden’s Negative Growth Economy”?
THE SOURCES
- Anna Bross, senior vice…
