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‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens (www.theonion.com)
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[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

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