Believing what you see
Dec. 19th, 2012 05:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I won't post it because I suspect it's a viral video advertisement and they don't need my help, but there's a very convincing video out there of a large bird of prey swooping down and lifting a toddler a few feet before dropping it. It blew up on my twitter page last night around midnight, with people from disparate sources suddenly talking about it at once. That to me is the biggest evidence that it is part of a marketing campaign and not a real event. If it's real it will be picked up by legitimate journalists, and it will be kind of a big story. But I don't think it is.
Edit: we seem to have identified our hoaxers. I'm pleased that it was a not-for-profit operation.
Edit: we seem to have identified our hoaxers. I'm pleased that it was a not-for-profit operation.
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Date: 2012-12-20 06:23 am (UTC)