Re: Yeah, Canadian media falls for ULs, too

In article <[email protected]>
	Don Freeman <[email protected]> writes:
>On 6/20/2024 5:04 PM, danny burstein wrote:
>> Ontario woman pulls the "omg, someone tied some
>> fabric to my car door handle" FEAR deal...
>> 
>> And one of the usually coherent news/web sites spreads it
>> 
>> https://www.blogto.com/city/2024/06/ontario-woman-warns-string-car-door/
>> 
>
>One would think that if this were really a reliable news site they would 
>have noticed that it originated on TicTok and just moved on, or at least 
>set of alarms bells and investigated it further.

There are far too many sites with "articles" that amount to:

  1) Someone made a claim on social media.
  2) We did not verify this claim.
  3) We want to spread it as far as possible.

Google News in particular is inclined to send those my way.

>Don "will ignore TikTok for sanity" Freeman

Drew "Be angry about my fast food bill"" Lawson

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