Everyone that reported the bombing in Gaza of the hospital with 500 dead.
CFN Headline: "So and so did X, claims Y" is seen as CFN making the claim that so and so did X. I see this time and time again, and it's effectively people not even reading the complete headline.
While I don't blame the journalists for these headlines (people aren't even reading the headlines and instead interpreting them the way they want), I do wonder if there is a better solution.
And I know someone is going to come in and claim "Only put facts in the headline" or something like that, and these are generally fact-based headlines. Someone of interest made a claim, so going completely fact-based isn't going to help, because that happens already and people get confused.
The real issue is people not even reading the stories and only taking headlines as gospel. A bit of forgetfulness and telephone (the game) later and "So and so did X, Y claims" turns into "So and so did X".
I wonder if this is a result of limited-character lengths on aggregators. It's easy to chop the end off of a headline and have it still make sense. Couple that with people reading only the first part of the headline and possibly ignoring the second part.
I think your suggestion moving to attribution to the front would be helpful for headlines online. Maybe even have the title of the page have the attribution prepended to handle scrapers.
Some would say that we should just wait for both sides to put out info, or wait for independent investigations before reporting anything, but that can take quite some time. On Sept 6 there was a missile strike in Ukraine that was initially attributed to Russia - but it took almost two weeks for investigations to find that it was likely a Ukrainian misfire.
I've seen people suggest that journalists should do the research themselves and report the facts. The assumption here is that the journalist should become the source, which flies in the face of journalistic integrity. Quite the opposite, the journalist should do some level of source verification, but I don't want the journalists themselves making the claims for news reports.
This is why media literacy is so important, and why it's evident it's a skill people lack these days.
https://twitter.com/Jingjing_Li/status/1714895998252621877
They juxtaposed pictures to give the impression that destroyed buildings were the hospital, which was not destroyed: