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* Shop Disney will have merchandise or images that contradict their source material on occasion. One example is ''WesternAnimation/{{Moana}}'' merchandise depicting Pua the pig as traveling at sea with Moana and Maui on their first voyage, but Pua is left at home in the film. Even the DVD cover of the film depicts Pua traveling across the sea so this is presumably a case of marketing the characters over continuity errors.

** In an [[https://ew.com/american-girl-live-action-movie-mattel-not-snl-sketch-8415727 article]] by Entertainment Weekly, contributor Jessica Wang erroneously lists the first three Historical Characters--Kirsten, Samantha and Molly--as from World War II. Kirsten was a Swedish immigrant from the 1850s Pioneer era, while Samantha was from the Edwardian era during the turn of the 20th century. Molly is the only one of the original bunch who actually represents that particular era.

* [[https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2020/02/25/how-do-you-say-gif-properly-ask-giphy-jif/4750684002/ In a USA Today article about whether GIF is pronounced ''gif'' or ''jif'']], the writer calls GIFs video loops. GIFs are an image file format, not a video file format.

* ''Toys/AmericanGirl'' has multiple ones, too many to link to individual articles about as it happens so often. Common misconceptions cited in news articles include:
** The claim that the modern dolls launched in the 90s were custom-ordered or personalized to look like the recipient. American Girl didn't offer custom-design dolls until [[NewerThanTheyThink 2017]] and the "modern" dolls that are claimed to be customized are from a set pool of options which aren't modified from however they're designed at release. There's often more options for white female children—the first twenty dolls were mostly light-skinned with the same face mold--so recipients who matched those looks or were given dolls to look like them may think they were customized. Or mistake them for another then-available brand, [=MyTwinn=].
** Any clickbait article that claims that American Girl dolls are worth thousands of dollars on the secondary market. The article will often link to eBay auctions that are listed for thousands of dollars for dolls and/or collection items. What's not said is how these auctions almost always end without a single bid or purchase. The majority of collectors searching on the secondary market don't want to and outright refuse to pay high prices for secondary clothes or much more than $150 for a ''new in box'' doll, and that's for unique dolls that are harder to find such as Cécile or Kanani; even they can be found at sensible prices with patience or through direct sales among collectors, especially as children who had them age up and sell off old collections. No one's paying $2000 for a incomplete used Samantha in messy clothes missing her shoes and stockings.

** In an [[https://ew.com/american-girl-live-action-movie-mattel-not-snl-sketch-8415727 article]] by Entertainment Weekly, contributor Jessica Wang erroneously lists the first three Historical Characters--Kirsten, Samantha and Molly--as from World War II; Kirsten was a Swedish immigrant from the 1850s Pioneer era, while Samantha was from the Edwardian era during the turn of the 20th century. Molly is the only one of the original bunch who actually represents that particular era.

** [[NostalgiaAintLikeItUsedToBe Nostalgia-heavy]] articles, especially in the mid 2010s, frequently lamented about the newer lines and stated the Historical Characters (who all had "real problems and adventures" that taught children important history lessons) were all PutOnABus and replaced by the more "vapid" Girls of the Year, who worry about shallow things like art and dancing and frequently go on unrealistic fancy trips around the world. While it's true some Historicals were made unavailable to purchase for periods of time, their books remained accessible through the company for years (and can still be found on the secondary market) ''and'' the historical line has continued to exist in some form since 1986, with new characters for new eras added fairly regularly to keep the line active and refreshed. Plus, the modern characters had their own relevant problems as well, addressing topics such as bullying and low school funding removing electives. "Brave" Samantha who taught about child labor was not retired so "silly" Isabelle could get kids to worry about ballet instead.

** [[NostalgiaAintLikeItUsedToBe Nostalgia-heavy]] articles, especially in the mid 2010s, which lamented that the Historical Characters had "real problems and adventures" that taught children important history--but were all PutOnABus and replaced by the more "vapid" Girls of the Year, who worry about shallow things like art, dancing, and going on unrealistic fancy trips around the world. Firstly, the idea that the historicals have better, more relevant and more "radical" adventures is wildly exaggerated; while for example Felicity does "steal" a horse (by heling it escape into the wild), Addy escapes slavery, and Sam speaks up against factory dangers for children, what they do is over exaggerated to make the [[AuthorTract author's point against the modern dolls]] (as the articles were often written by adults who are thinking about their own childhood with the brand) and rarely to the level cited. A major one is how Sam is often claimed to have spoken in front of the factory owners themselves, instead of just a local speech contest only in her small town (which has no factories). Secondly, the Girls of the Year have never completely supplanted the historical dolls at any time; they're another separate line, and their concerns and worries are just as relelvant to their own current era. Saige's concern about art addresses the concerns of school not being funded enough to offer artistic programs regularly. Grace's trip to Paris isn't a casual expensive vacation where she flits around the city seeing all the sights, it's because her mom is helping family and Grace goes so her parents don't have to worry about who will supervise her while her mom's away--''and'' she's only there in her first book. While it's true some Historicals were made unavailable to purchase for periods of time, their books remained accessible through the company for years (and can often be found on the secondary market) and the historical line has continued to exist in some form since 1986, with new characters for new eras added fairly regularly to keep the line active andrefreshed. New characters were even added as older ones went away--Rebecca came out soon after Samantha was made unavailiable. "Brave" Samantha was not sent away so "silly" Isabelle could get kids to worry about ballet instead.

* An article that defined "{{slash fic}}tion" as stories where fans put other authors' characters into new, imagined situations. Though they certainly are '''[[GuyOnGuyIsHot new]]''' most of the time. And '''[[ShippingGoggles imagined]]'''...
** In general, media often purports to explain FanFiction but is confused about what it is; this often involves assuming that "slash" means any kind of fanfiction/all fanfiction is slash (while it's common, it's only one of ''many'' types of fic), or that all fanfiction is pornographic (despite the fact that some popular fanfic sites ''outright ban'' smut), or that it's ''all'' [[MostFanficWritersAreGirls written by twelve-year-old girls and bored middle-aged housewives]] (while both are notable demographics, they're hardly the only ones). The most common assumption of all is that all fanfiction is terrible and [[RougeAnglesOfSatin misspelled]] like ''Fanfic/MyImmortal''; while there is plenty of low-quality fanfiction, as a result of it being written by a wide variety of people with various levels of skill (and often posted completely unedited), it's rarely as bad as media claims.
** In some places, such as Denmark, the media tends to assume that all fanfiction is RealPersonFic. While there is certainly plenty of that, most fanfiction is itself based on fiction, and many fanfic authors find stories that feature real people to be rather odd.

* According to a lot of American news sources and talk radio (especially conservative shows), Socialism is a political ideology, not an economic one (although any economic system that puts the means of production in state hands—the technical definition of socialism—has a lot of political implications). For that matter, most people only really know of Communism and Libertarianism [[note]] which in America denotes free-market liberal conservatism, which it was never supposed to mean [[/note]] as the ThemeParkVersion, at best.

* When German radio channel WDR 2 reported on the ''Bielefeld Conspiracy'' they claimed Usenet was the predecessor to the Internet, apparently confusing it with the Arpanet. Usenet is actually a term for newsgroups, which, like e-mail, continue to be used ''over'' the Internet. The report also failed to point out that the ''Bielefeld Conspiracy'' parodied conspiracy theories (they called it a satire but did not elaborate), fueling the misconception that the denial of the existence of Bielefeld, rather than the city itself, was the conspiracy.

* [[https://manfred.life/history-p2p in a blog post about the history of P2P]] there are a few factual errors in this post, the APRANET was made in 1968, not 1969 and Usenet was first conceived in 1979 and was made in 1980 and it wasn't made in 1979.
[[https://milkwhale.com/portfolio/the-history-of-file-sharing/ in an article about the history of file sharing]] the writer on the article claims that FTP was launched in 1985, when was actually launched in 1971, BBSes were an early staple of file sharing, not just Usenet.
* [[https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2020/02/25/how-do-you-say-gif-properly-ask-giphy-jif/4750684002/ A USA Today article about Whether GIF is pronounced ''gif'' or ''jif'']] the writer calls GIF's video loops, GIF's are an image file format since a video is different than a GIF and has a different quality than a GIF and GIF's are made without
sound.
* [[https://www.thewindowsclub.com/extract-frames-from-a-video-with-high-quality an article about extracting frames from a video]] The article says that a video is made from a succession from many scenes, a video is made of a succession of still images in a quick display, not scenes, scenes are a section from a film, it's different from images.

This article on instructional videos and TV shows about the internet on the 1990s begins with that the internet was invented in 1969.
Actually, it was invented in 1968, although, along with the invention of email in the mid-1960s, The early version of the internet, APARNET was invented in 1968, Writer probably didn't remembered when APARNET was invented.
However, The internet did seek early popularity in the 1980s until it was intensely popular in the 1990s with the invention of the World Wide Web.

* Nobody was expecting Nazis to pop up in one of ''UsefulNotes/{{Donald Trump}}'s'' ad campaigns. ''Seriously'' expecting, anyways. [[https://www.cbc.ca/news/trending/donald-trump-nazi-accident-1.3152065 Nevertheless, it happened by accident]] and the Internet had a field day with it.

* Similar to the ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}} example on the [[CowboyBeBopAtHisComputer.{{Film}} Film page]], some news articles claim that the 2012 Toys/{{Furby}} is the first time they have been revived since 1998, when the Furby was also brought back in 2005.

** In the plot summary of ''Theatre/TheTsarsBride'', it's said that Lyubasha was brought from Cashmere. She wasn't: the opritschniks captured her in ''Kashira'', which, although not precisely in the vicinity (more than 200 km away from Alexandrov where the opera is set), is a Russian town that was quite within the opritschniks' reach.

* ''Theatre/TheSnowMaiden'': [[https://www.zazzerino.info/Rimsky_Korsakov/Oper/1881_01/index.shtml The plot summary]] of the opera at ''Zazzerino'', a German-language site intended as a guide to operas, operettas and musicals, contains quite a few inaccuracies:
** It states that TheGoodKing Berendey is able to make peace between the Snow Maiden and Kupava, and that later Kupava leaves her ex-bridegroom Mizgir alone with the Snow Maiden to help the latter find love. It's not even close to the truth: the Snow Maiden and Kupava's friendship is never repaired, and Kupava has (and wants) nothing ''whatsoever'' to do with Mizgir after he renounces her, again, at Berendey's court. Mizgir ends up alone with the Snow Maiden because she wanders off alone in the woods and he pursues her.
** It's said that Berendey tells Lel to choose a bride among the maidens present at the celebration. It's not true: Berendey tells him to kiss a girl he likes best, and while Lel does pick Kupava, the very girl whom he ends up marrying, the kiss isn't treated as any kind of engagement or wedding ritual by anyone, and Lel and Kupava declare their love unambiguously and decide to get married much later.

* Similar to the ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}} example on the [[CowboyBeBopAtHisComputer.{{Film}} Film page]], some news articles claim that the 2012 Toys/{{Furby}} is the first time they have been revived since 1998, when the Furby was also brought back in 2005.

* ''Toys/{{Tamagotchi}}'': It's common for news outlets and Website/EBay listings to refer to Tamagotchi as a "giga pet" instead of "virtual pet". Toys/GigaPets are a specific type of virtual pet made by Tiger Electronics that are unrelated to Tamagotchis other than using the same concept. It was also fairly common, before Tamagotchi was overtaken by some of its more popular competitors, for said competitors to be called "Tamagotchis" in the media.

* The depiction of Anonymous in the media. Evil hacker group set out to [[Creator/FoxNewsChannel destroy all vans]], or international [[WellIntentionedExtremist internet freedom fighters willing to go to certain lengths]] to keep the internet free and open? Or just your average computer nerd, sick and tired of political bores trying to censor what they don't understand, using the aforementioned guise to [[RedHerring distract them from the fact]] that DDOS-ing their site is all he knows how to do? Or maybe they are [[WildMassGuessing internet superheroes from another dimension?]] [[TakeAThirdOption Or all of the above?]] Or none of the above? It's better not to dwell on it.

* [[https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2020/02/25/how-do-you-say-gif-properly-ask-giphy-jif/4750684002/ A USA Today article about Whether GIF is pronounced ''gif'' or ''jif'']] the writer calls GIF's video loops, GIF's are an image file format since a video is different than a GIF and has a different quality than a GIF and GIF's are made without sound.

* [[https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2020/02/25/how-do-you-say-gif-properly-ask-giphy-jif/4750684002/ A USA Today article about Whether GIF is pronounced ''gif'' or ''jif'']] the writer calls GIF's video loops, GIFs are a image file format, since a video is different than a GIF and has a different quality than a GIF and GIF's are made without sound.

* [[https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2020/02/25/how-do-you-say-gif-properly-ask-giphy-jif/4750684002/ A USA Today article about Whether GIF is pronounced ''gif'' or ''jif'']] the writer calls GIFs video loops when GIFs are a image file format, since a video is different than a GIF and has a different quality than a GIF and GIFs made without sound.