>He fabricated impossible-to-verify "facts", such as quotes or other, often tangential, factoids >Many times, some eerily apt song was somehow involved (playin

>He fabricated impossible-to-verify "facts", such as quotes or other, often tangential, factoids >Many times, some eerily apt song was somehow involved (playing on the radio, sung by passing child etc). They write it's impossible to miss if you read all his stories at once, but wasn't noticed in the normal, daily flow with sometimes months passing between stories This kind of tangental factoid reminds me of people who tweet things like "My 8 year old just asked me..." - everyone knows they are fabricating it but the stakes are so low it ends up being a joke, which evolved into the "woke toddler" meme. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/woke-toddler https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/woke-toddler I call it "cheap contextualization". It's rampant with journalists on Twitter who are not limited by their editors.