The truth-check references a couple of shaggy dog story social media posts which were circulating that declare the Republican vice presidential nominee wrote in his reserve Hillbilly Elegy about having intercourse with a sofa.
One tweet reads, “In his dreadful novel, ‘Hillbilly Elegy,’ JD Vance described having sex with a rubber glove secured between cushions on his couch. Republicans chose him to be one heartbeat away from becoming POTUS. Voters in NC, the U.S. furniture capital, should be particularly horrified.” (Reality-check: Hillbilly Elegy is a memoir, now not a magazine.)
Another post: “Can’t say for sure but he might be the first VP pick to have admitted in a ny times bestseller to fucking an inside-out latex glove shoved between two couch cushions (vance, hillbilly elegy, pp. 179-181).”
To be cloudless, Vance didn’t scribble in Hillbilly Elegy about having sexual members of the family with front room furnishings, and a Snopes debunk remains live in regards to the viral shaggy dog story. The archived model of AP’s fact-check additionally notes that there’s incorrect such passage within the PDF of the reserve. However there’s additionally technically incorrect evidence that Vance didn’t have intercourse with a sofa — there’s incorrect approach a journalist may just really know that. He simply didn’t scribble about it.
“The story, which did not go out on the wire to our customers, didn’t go through our standard editing process. We are looking into how that happened,” AP spokesperson Nicole Meir instructed The Verge in an e mail.
Information studies (and fact-checks particularly) are frequently worded in some way that sparsely wools a needle — there’s a remaining between pronouncing one thing definitively didn’t occur as opposed to pronouncing there’s incorrect proof of it. My supposition is that the AP headline used to be the disorder right here as it claims to debunk one thing this is unknowable. A headline like, “No, JD Vance didn’t write about fucking a couch” in all probability would had been extra correct.
And while you truly peel again the layers (flip over the cushions?), there’s truly incorrect approach for any folks to end up we didn’t have intercourse with a sofa.
Correction, July twenty fifth: A prior model of the piece misstated that the AP article used to be got rid of as of Friday morning. It used to be Thursday morning.
