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Internet Freaks Out, Prematurely Declares "Prop 8 Overturned" |
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Written by Instinct Staff |
Friday, 09 December 2011
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| Tags: prop 8, huffington post, internet, overturned, prematurely, false alarm, trend, twitter, digital, marriage equality, california |
If you, like us, woke up this morning with a blinding hangover to a litany of Facebook and Twitter updates claiming "Prop 8 was Overturned!," then allow us to take on a role we NEVER assume: the lucid one tasked with pulling the plug on the party. Unfortunately, kids, the article that caused the premature exhilaration amounting to one big social network bukkake is a 16-month old Huffington Post story. Seems someone misread and posted the outdated article to Facebook early Friday before it spread like digital wildfire.
Reports LA Weekly:
A Huffington Post article from August 2010 (and updated in May 2011) was littered all over Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and the rest of the Internet this morning. "Prop 8 OVERTURNED: Gay Marriage Ban Struck Down In California," reads the headline. Nope. Hard to say who was the instigating drunkard to first stumble across the piece and blast its (very dated) information to his/her entire social network, but since then, the piece has racked up thousands more shares. It currently holds HuffPost's No. 1 slot in "Hot on Facebook."
Fortunately, it's only a matter of time before the false social network alarm isn't so false.
(Source: LA Weekly)
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