Battling Misinformation: "Severance"

A Twitter account with a verified blue checkmark and over 1 million followers regularly peddles misinformation about how movies are made. Here's how they described the making of the first shot from "Severance" (Apple TV+) season two, episode one:

"The opening scene of 'SEVERANCE' Season 2 took 5 months to film."

Any reasonable person that is not a filmmaking professional would have no reason to believe anything other than this: "the production spent five months straight filming the elements for this single shot." Of course, what this crummy account wrote is a gross simplification of a nuanced point. The production did not spend five months straight filming elements for this shot.

As indicated in the show's official podcast hosted by director Ben Stiller and actor Adam Scott, they couldn't be more clear about the complexities they face in gathering the photography for this shot.

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Scott: "We shot those ten difference pieces [of photography] over a period of, what would you say, five months?"

Stiller: "Yeah."

Pretty clear. In fact, the dumb account that posted this misinformation included the link to the podcast as its source in a reply. Either they are intentionally being deceptive, or they're grossly incompetent at reporting "Film Updates".

There are far too many accounts out there that spit misinformation, muddying the waters of how the general public understands how art is created, and it's quite frustrating. Just read some of the replies and quote tweets of this stupid post.