Flutterby™! : How news propoagates

RT Graham Sutherland / Polynomial @gsuberland@chaos.social

this toothbrush DDoS thing shows just how easy it is to get a dozen well-regarded news outlets to post a completely false story, as long as it sounds vaguely plausible and compelling. you only have to convince one reporter to write something and the rest will rush to write a story based on the content of the first article.

And, yes, I fell for it (for a short time), because the idea of someone having the 8MB or so to run Java on a toothbrush rather than engaging in software development seemed totally plausible.