Last month as drones over NY/NJ made headlines, a radiation-monitoring site reported spikes in radiation in NY, seemingly supporting a theory that the drones were tracking a dirty bomb on the loose there. Only the spikes were fake. I wrote about how the fake info got reported and how it spread on social media
https://www.zetter-zeroday.com/anatomy-of-a-nuclear-scare/
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