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What was fake on the Internet this week:
3. An elderly white man did not tell a black woman to sit in the back of the bus. At least not in this horrifying video, which has been shared more than 150,000 times on Facebook alone. The video was uploaded by a New Yorker named Zaida Pugh, who says the incident went down on May 5 on the B35 bus in Brooklyn. But Pugh, an actress, also goes by the name Ms. Muffin and she runs an entire Web site devoted to prank/skit videos
that put messages out there. Many of the videos take place on public transit and depict charged confrontations similar to this one.
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6. Shovel girl is neither dead nor on Twitter at least not on any of the many Twitter accounts that have popped up in the past three days. Miranda Fugate, the subject of a massively viral Vine video that shows a high school girl getting hit with a shovel, is very much alive though she did suffer a concussion when her head hit the pavement, according to local radio. The death rumor began on the hoax site Huzlers, which (for the thousandth time!) is always fake. While were on the subject of undead Vine stars, Bryan Silva is just fine, too.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2014/05/09/what-was-fake-on-the-internet-this-week-biometric-earpods-semen-cupcakes-and-photos-of-our-girls/
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(19,768 posts)Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)When I saw it, the first thing I noticed was how meek the black actors were in the face of an over-drawn, somewhat dated bigot. Had the incident actually happened in Birmingham or Jacksonville (let alone Brooklyn) someone would have cold-cocked the blowhole. And no one would have objected.
Besides, a couple of calls for authenticity went unanswered. But reality is secondary when everyone's perfect prejudices are served -- with onions. And now that everyone is sated, they are snoring and farting in unchallenged bliss.
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)Starting out as audio only, then filmed up-and-down instead of side-to-side, it certainly had the ring of authenticity. I really thought it was a senile old guy whose dementia was allowing his latent racism to show.
I guess I should be more skeptical of these things.
m-lekktor
(3,675 posts)the other day! i believed it.
alp227
(32,025 posts)so they see credibility in everything they read online. Some great examples, http://myrightwingdad.blogspot.com/
A HERETIC I AM
(24,368 posts)AverageJoe90
(10,745 posts)But I guess I'm glad that it wasn't. Thanks for setting the story straight, T.S.S.(no pun intended).