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   Dr. Casey Fiesler (cfiesler@hci.social)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Sep-2023 12:42:26 JST Dr. Casey Fiesler

   This reminder of how many people are fooled by a photoshopped tweet screenshot (and believe some random X user without verifying) is really depressing given that we need to be convincing people that (thanks, generative AI!) if they are scrolling through social media and see an actual video of the CDC director at a press conference they absolutely cannot believe that it is real until verifying the original source of the video. https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattnovak/2023/09/02/no-theres-not-an-ebola-outbreak-at-burning-man/?sh=310308d65dd7

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     Dr. Casey Fiesler (cfiesler@hci.social)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Sep-2023 12:42:24 JST Dr. Casey Fiesler

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     I’m sure you will be shocked to hear that the user who tweeted a bunch of these Burning Man Ebola rumors has straight up admitted they were making stuff up for X revenue $$$. Posted a screenshot of a $12k payout.

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     Dr. Casey Fiesler (cfiesler@hci.social)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Sep-2023 12:42:25 JST Dr. Casey Fiesler

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     Heh now people in my TikTok comments are insisting that LAX was evacuated because of a private jet carrying Burning Man escapees. Which is not true (see: https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/part-of-lax-ticketing-area-temporarily-evacuated-due-to-suspicious-item-investigation/) but I managed to trace the rumor back to… you guessed it, random people on twitter just stating something like it’s true without any sources.

     Paul Cantrell repeated this.