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What about something like: "Angus man who tried to fly drone into Perth Prison claimed Romanian circus stole his chihuahua" Without using Google - truth or pa
by arethuza 7y ago
What about something like:
"Angus man who tried to fly drone into Perth Prison claimed Romanian circus stole his chihuahua"
Without using Google - truth or parody?
- TeMPOraL 7y agoIn absence of punishment for fake news, I'd assume it's parody. The presence of such punishment would let you think, "they didn't label it as parody so either they have lots of money to burn on fines, or it might actually be true".
- arethuza 7y agohttps://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/local/perth-kinross/1007095/angus-man-who-tried-to-fly-drone-into-perth-prison-claimed-romanian-circus-stole-his-chihuahua/ https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/local/perth-kinross/100... Also a creative writing challenge based on combining this with some other headlines: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2019/10/creative-writing-challenge.html https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2019/10/creativ...
- TeMPOraL 7y agoIn this case it turns out to be true. But (absent fake news punishment) in general, you can assume that such a funny-sounding headline is completely bullshit, because legitimate news only hits such headlines by accident, whereas there are tabloid and celebrity gossip sites that produce such headlines on a daily basis.