“I’ll verbally smack ‘em a couple of times and then I just stop engaging with them, in case they’re being paid by the post.”
You won’t debate me because you know I have the facts. This article is fake news.
Except it’s not fake news. He said those things and more. An intellectually curious person would have sought out additional info in order to validate their position. Apparently there is a longer version of the presser in which the BioNTech CEO said exactly what the headline declared. Therefore the article is correct, and you were wrong to label it as “fake news.”