It’s really depressing how many of my FB friends got rather angry when I pointed out how much these stories resemble urban legends and how there’s never any hard evidence or even people with firsthand knowledge of these “parties” cited. 1/https://twitter.com/doritmi/status/1279126943258959872 …
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Indeed, they react as though I’m accusing them of lying or of being stupid. That’s not how urban legends work. People believe them because they want to, because they sound superficially plausible, and because people they trust tell them they happened. 3/
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The press, however, really should be way more skeptical about these stories. They usually fall apart with just a little investigation. 4/4
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In fairness it wasn’t a lot of my FB friends (some weren’t even FB friends), but I was disappointed that it was any.
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I remember when these email virus "warning from IBM" were going round and I posted they were rubbish. Several people flamed me that this was from IBM. I let other friends point out I was posting from an IBM lab address.
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