Anyone else seeing obviously fake stories on social media meant to cause fear?

[LuvOrlando]

I saw an obviously fake story this afternoon on Instagram that was so plainly meant to scare people and all I thought was, "Here we go," anyone else seeing nonsense?

It was a middle age man, dad type, showing a video of a supposed giant submarine that just popped up in shallow water just off Myrtle Beach - OK sure As if the only group to show up at such a time would be the Coast Guard with one tiny boat? Dad man was talking about the area being cleared out, shows a mom type leaving the beach and there was a video pan over to a few golf carts being the only vehicles left in the parking lot, no cars, and someone hanging out of a helicopter on a rope ladder or something maybe to get a better look and then, the big moment a big black shadow in the water. Come on, my junk TV series do better than this.

Now I'm just searching looking for more fake scary stories with stereotype Americans

 

[NotUrsula]

What's way more likely is that some fool saw a school of baitfish and thought he was looking at a submarine, called the Coasties, and they were obligated to come prove him wrong.

There actually are a fair number of wrecked WW2 German u-boats sunk off the OBX; there was an area there called Torpedo Alley during the war.

 

[LuvOrlando]

This morning another fake. I watched a woman in NJ sharing the first missile in NJ with a bunch of, "OMG, OMG." For some reason just slid a hard in front of the camera to show she is black and married, so that is another stereotype and another idiotic attempt to incite fear.

 

[NannyBeBe]

I rarely read any of the side stories when I read the news because most of them are fake or meaningless and I wind up down a rabbit hole.

 

[LuvOrlando]

I rarely read any of the side stories when I read the news because most of them are fake or meaningless and I wind up down a rabbit hole.

This is from Instagram and looks like everything else from Instagram, fakes make their way into things I follow

 

[_19disnA]

Have never used social media as a source of legit news. There have been any number of sensational stories posted over the years that turn out to be bogus/fake or simply a recycle of an older story. If the ONLY place you see some sort of bizarre/outlandish story posted is social media, I would immediately suspect it is nonsense and someone looking for clicks/followers. For some people it becomes a game to post an outlandish story and then see how many times it gets spread around.

 

[Mr_Woodchuck]

I remember when the internet was fun, and you could meet normal people and exchange ideas. Those were great times!