Yeah, Canadian media falls for ULs, too

[danny burstein]

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/

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[Snidely]

Post by danny burstein
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/
_____________________________________________________
Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key
[to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded]

Well, the two things that get the most clicks are fear and sex, right?
So there must have been a blonde somewhere in that parking lot flashing
us, to make sure all the clickers were catered to.

/dps

[Don Freeman]

Post by danny burstein
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.

Don "will ignore TikTok for sanity" Freeman

[Drew Lawson]

Post by Don Freeman

Post by danny burstein
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.

Post by Don Freeman
Don "will ignore TikTok for sanity" Freeman

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