another #fakenews ‘hate crime’ ends up just being a racist ploy by the lying perpetrator
https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-44937372Quote
As the number of shares and comments went up, the story was picked up by news media around the world - from New Zealand to India to the UK.
The BBC investigated but declined to publish a story when it could not confirm what happened - Mr Cavil deleted the Facebook posts in which he made the false claims and did not respond to an interview request. He repeated the false claims when contacted by other media organisations.
The incident highlights how quickly unverified or false information can spread online. Social media platforms including Facebook, Twitter and YouTube have been under pressure to improve their efforts to combat the spread of false or misleading information.
good reporting agency BBC had the foresight to not run something they couldn’t confirm. Same cannot be said for scummy swamp-loving trash #fakenews running tabloids like Washington compost bird liner
stupid restaurant at first “banned” the customer who got wrapped up in this ploy, but now is tryna rectify their failure by offering free (likely low quality) food. fortunately for the customer they were not doxxed by some butthurt tabloid reporter for buzzfeed 2.0 or washington compost
This post was edited by excellence on Jul 24 2018 04:58pm