> I was trying to skim this article, but it's a very hard read. There has been a LOT of noise about this story recently on the internet. This blog post is abo

> I was trying to skim this article, but it's a very hard read. There has been a LOT of noise about this story recently on the internet. This blog post is about the rather narrow issue of how the American media mishandled a specific detail of the story, relating to whether he did a self-own by posting a pizza box on Twitter so authorities could see it. > Is there any reason to assume that he didn't just fly there? In which case of course they knew he was there. Yes, this blog post mentions that. It basically says that the pizza box self-own doesn't pass the smell test because Romanian authorities have lots of other ways to know the guy was in the country. (And because the original Romanian news article doesn't even mention it, so the pizza box self-own is apparently based entirely on speculation.) > How is this even a story? Completely absurd. The story as a whole is a story because it went viral and this guy is hated by many. The blog post is a story because it's a journalist commenting on bad journalism and how journalists participate in spreading unsubstantiated nonsense.