u/classy_barbarian

If anyone has been using Threads the past few days you probably encountered this somewhere. The discourse around it is crazy and it's really been a good example of how misinformation spreads.

I don't want to write up an explanation of what happened here but the news was big enough that Snopes made an article about it for those interested:

http://snopes.com/fact-check/cnn-online-rape-academy/