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A Bluesky post featuring a link to BBC News. The thumbnail is a photo of a burning Cybertruck. The headline reads "Elon Musk sent to Guantanamo after his Cybertruck explods outside White House". The lede says "Tesla stock jumps 250% on news that Musk would be unable to run the company from his cell".

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A Bluesky post featuring a link to BBC News. The thumbnail is a photo of a burning Cybertruck. The headline reads "Elon Musk sent to Guantanamo after his Cybertruck explods outside White House". The lede says "Tesla stock jumps 250% on news that Musk would be unable to run the company from his cell".
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Andrew (andrewt@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 06-Mar-2025 18:25:29 JST Andrew

So it turns out the geniuses over at Bluesky trust the client app to fetch, and honestly report, webpage metadata for preview cards, so with a little tinkering in the debug tools you can post whatever news stories you like and they look exactly the same as real ones.
https://bsky.app/profile/andrewt.net/post/3ljo2dja62224

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