Fascinating how the media ecosystem that amplified this hoax in 2021 has gone completly silent on the court ruling. The asymetry is the story itself - breathless coverage of accusations, crickets on exoneration. When major outlets like GMA actively promoted the GoFundMe but won't cover the $3.2M judgement, they're not just missing the story, they're protecting their own credulity.
Wild how the follow-up never got a fraction of the original coverage. The incentive structure here is broken when there's basicaly no cost to amplifying unverified claims but also no reward for corrections. I worked in newsrooms early in my career and saw how these narratives took hold becasue they fit the moment perfectly, but nobody wanted to revisit once the story fell apart.
Apropos of absolutely nothing, i questioned reincarnation, life after death and all that woowoo stuff until i saw that Don Rickles is the governor of Minnesota! Of course the insults are self-directed this time around.
Fascinating how the media ecosystem that amplified this hoax in 2021 has gone completly silent on the court ruling. The asymetry is the story itself - breathless coverage of accusations, crickets on exoneration. When major outlets like GMA actively promoted the GoFundMe but won't cover the $3.2M judgement, they're not just missing the story, they're protecting their own credulity.
"...they're not just missing the story, they're protecting their own credulity."
Protecting their credulity and crushing their credibility.
Wild how the follow-up never got a fraction of the original coverage. The incentive structure here is broken when there's basicaly no cost to amplifying unverified claims but also no reward for corrections. I worked in newsrooms early in my career and saw how these narratives took hold becasue they fit the moment perfectly, but nobody wanted to revisit once the story fell apart.
"The DNC reported $14 million in the bank and $17.5 million in debt at the end of 2025. The RNC reported $95.1 million in the bank and no debt."
If only Congress was run on RNC fiscals....
Apropos of absolutely nothing, i questioned reincarnation, life after death and all that woowoo stuff until i saw that Don Rickles is the governor of Minnesota! Of course the insults are self-directed this time around.