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The Onion's Hostage Tweets Draw Scrutiny
- technoslut 15y agoAt this point, I'd only pay to read/watch the NYT, The Guardian, Nat Geo, Al-Jazeera (English) and The Onion. The ability they have to affect the 'real news' is unprecedented and intelligently done.
- vannevar 15y agoI guess the Capitol Police find the idea of armed congressmen holding schoolkids hostage pretty plausible these days.
- gerggerg 15y ago“Twitter feeds are reporting false information..." I feel like that needs to be the social default. The only reason this is even remotely an issue is because some people at some point decided that they would trust twitter for critical information.
- cbs 15y agoIn other news: An actor on stage shouted fire in a crowded theater.
- bennesvig 15y agoIt's all context. If you'd been reading their stream from the beginning, it would have made sense.