Flutterby™! : "boat jumping challenge"

At least the WaPo seems to be (finally) catching up on gullibility and stenography: That dangerous TikTok trend on the news? It’s fake. — The ‘boat jumping challenge’ is just the latest hoax aimed at scaring adults about teen technology use (gift link to avoid paywall)

Dreyfuss said there are much bigger issues at stake than TikTok’s PR problem, however.

“Journalists are falling down on the job,” she said, “which leads to ridiculous policies and blanket bans and complete misunderstanding of what roles these platforms hold in our children’s lives. Journalists do a humongous disservice against our country’s ability to keep people safe and craft regulations that would actually protect children when they muddy the water so much with bad reporting. It’s frankly lazy.”