A fake news release claiming that Bank of America was seeking public input on how to run the bank was sent to business journalists at Dow Jones Newswires and The Wall Street Journal.
“Dow Jones Newswires mistakenly published the fake press release and a headline about the release around 9:15 a.m. EDT Wednesday. A post from the Wall Street Journal’s Deal Journal blog later reported the press release was a hoax. That post was published on Dow Jones Newswires at 10:52 a.m. EDT. The fake press release and headline were subsequently removed from Dow Jones’s archival systems. Ashley Huston, a spokesperson for Dow Jones, said the company regrets the error.
“A spokesman for Bank of America, who confirmed the release was a fake, said the bank doesn’t plan to take action against the sender of the email.
“A spokeswoman for Business Wire confirmed that the release was not sent by Business Wire, a unit of Berkshire Hathaway, and had no further comment.”
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No doubt a lot of other business journalists received it, as we did. A careful reading was enough to arouse suspicion that it was fake. Maybe the lede here is that a fake press release disregarded by various business journalists was taken at face value by Dow Jones...?