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    1. erin mccann |‏Verified account @mccanner 24 Nov 2017

      I'm watching an Unsolved Mysteries episode about Ogopogo the Loch Ness knockoff and it's better sourced than the pie conspiracy tweets

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    2. erin mccann |‏Verified account @mccanner 24 Nov 2017

      Because the Time mag tweet happened while the Pie tweet was being debunked, twitter with its nonexistent attention span has moved on. And the pie thing will falsely just fall into memory despite being not true.

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    3. erin mccann |‏Verified account @mccanner 24 Nov 2017

      You can't just embrace facts when they support your side. That's not how any of this works.

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    4. erin mccann |‏Verified account @mccanner 24 Nov 2017

      The Pie Thing happened because a freelance writer with 800 followers didn't understand how twitter's image hosting works. Then 'fanous' people amplified her tweet (without sourcing it).pic.twitter.com/1s1lHX3NjN

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    5. erin mccann |‏Verified account @mccanner 24 Nov 2017

      By now a lot of the original source tweets have been deleted, after sowing a small amount of low-grade chaos. Not seeing anyone involved actually admitting 'oh shit yeah I got this wrong, and I'm sorry.'

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    6. erin mccann |‏Verified account @mccanner 24 Nov 2017

      And then you have the freaking daily news up there 'hey we're just saying people are asking questions.' It's a perfect formula for consequence-free viral crap. The stakes seem low but they are not.

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    7. erin mccann |‏Verified account @mccanner 24 Nov 2017

      Anyway who knows if she made the pie! But there's absolutely zero evidence on twitter that she didn't.

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    8. erin mccann |‏Verified account @mccanner 24 Nov 2017

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      Anyway I'm just gonna quote tweet Mike on this again. Don't devalue facts just because you think you found a punchline. https://twitter.com/mikeisaac/status/934183059821232128 …

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    9. erin mccann |‏Verified account @mccanner 25 Nov 2017

      Last night someone got mad at me for suggesting that knowingly spreading fake viral crap wasn't funny or noble or whatever he called it. I'm still angry at the idea that this is the world we live in.

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    10. Mike Corones‏ @corones 25 Nov 2017
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      Joking about it helps normalize it, which annoys me even more.

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      erin mccann |‏Verified account @mccanner 25 Nov 2017
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      Dude last night was all "I don't see what you're so angry about it's just a joke" and then all I saw was white hot rage before I turned off twitter.

      9:48 AM - 25 Nov 2017
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