Uh it was the NYTimes that tweeted out the original "both sides" statement so if they misrepresented their own article they are even dumber than we give them credit for.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">At a White House briefing, President Trump theorized — dangerously, in the view of some experts — about the powers of sunlight, ultraviolet light and household disinfectants to kill the coronavirus <a href="https://t.co/cm6fyxqQ0O">https://t.co/cm6fyxqQ0O</a></p>— The New York Times (@nytimes) <a href="https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1253556794405896192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 24, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
If they dont want people to misread what they say, how about say it better. They could have just printed the headline of the story but, as usual, they were too chickenchit to deal with people on Twitter who might be mean to them. So they soften it, make it sound more benign, and make themselves just look stupid. That isnt Twitter as the problem...that is the Times as the problem.