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[-] Infynis@midwest.social 62 points 11 months ago

I hope the writer for this article makes residuals. They're getting a lot of use out of it

[-] Alerian@lemmy.ml 40 points 11 months ago

They do actually rewrite it slightly each time they repost it, even though the title is the same

[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 38 points 11 months ago

They just change the date, city, number of victims, and then change the fake person's name for the quote. The rest stays exactly the same.

[-] Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago

Yes, that's how all news sites do it now

[-] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 points 11 months ago

But in this case it's part of the point of the repeating article that the article is nearly identical every time

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