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For those wondering, this played out well! OP found someone to take the job. His wife bit on the prank gleefully, was actually thrilled by the idea that OP had a son he didn't know about. When the prank was revealed, she thought it was hilarious. Ultimately pretty wholesome, OP married a keeper.
We fired our fact-checkers, so we cannot verify whether that is true or not.
i would like to post a community note saying that i personally believe it to be true
I can assure you it is true as I was there. I was the $100 note.
I can also assure you it is true. I was given a $100 not.. uh wait no you didn't hear that
True or not, this is the outcome we deserve.
It's the outcome I want to believe as well.
Literally everything about it's anecdotal so the best result a fact-checker could have is a shrug.
Nah they have actual footage from the event
They couldn't before they fired them either, so not a lot has changed. Their "fact checkers" were poorly written algorithms that frequently flagged benign content as misinformation.
I think the goal was to flag benign content as misinformation to push truthful content to the same level as flat earth content.
So doing exactly what was intended.
The AI replacement says this is true.
Yep you can read the follow up here: https://www.reddit.com/r/harrisonburg/comments/1hvdyv8/fake_kidpissed_wife_epilogue/
Look at mister MVP over here.
ahahahaha, thanks for linking
He's playing checkers, she's playing 3d go.
I think 3d go is called gone
and everyone clapped