• chungusamonugs [he/him]
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    2510 months ago

    It agrees with the bias of the publisher. The point of stories like this is to put the concept out into the ether and engineer the narrative. The exact thing happened with the weather balloon. Even though retractions were published, ask most Americans and they will still tell you earnestly that it was a spy balloon.

    • egg1918 [she/her]
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      1610 months ago

      it was in the news again a week or 2 ago and they were still calling it a spy balloon