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How news propoagates

2024-02-09 18:32:56.459031+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

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.

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