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Associated Press Dutifully Reports Twitter Parody as Fact

Hudson Hongo · 07/23/14 02:50PM

In a place as strange and wonderful as the Internet, it can be tough even for web-native publications to get all the facts straight, but old media seems to have a special talent for fucking them completely sideways. Take, for example, the Associated Press and New York Daily News, who yesterday reported a brazen attack by bicycle terrorists in New York, using a tweet from a clearly identified parody account as their only source.