There is always such an air of sneering smugness about the idea of people who fall for fake news. Things that I have seen labelled as fake news in my career: 1. That the police opened the gate 2. That first aid was deliberately held back due to fears of the crowd..3. The 9/11..
https://twitter.com/news_rse/status/1403970458404458497
…dust contained carcinogens 4.Journalists were hacking the phones of bereaved 5. That there was collusion between police forces and major news outlets 6. That there were risks to children of the swine flu vaccine 7. That there was a serial killer operating in Greater Manchester
8. That Jimmy Saville was a paedophile 9. That Stuart Hall was a paedophile 10. That there might not be WMD 11. That the hands of the dead were removed in Marchioness disaster 12. That there were risks to women of vaginal mesh 13… and of J and J talcum powder…
14. There was a problem with the tech in the Boeing 737 Max…… I could go on….if you work in U.K. disaster planning you get to hear of society’s “wardrobe monsters” fairly early on. The challenge then is what to do about them.
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