Saw a rumor about a famous actor buying a house in my town, but the listing photos were from a real estate site in Canada.

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Yeah that's just how the internet is now. You can't trust any of it. I saw a recipe blog last week that used a stock photo of "homemade" soup that was clearly from a restaurant in Germany. It's all just content scraped from anywhere to make a story seem real. Makes you wonder how many local news articles are just rewriting these fake posts. The whole system feels broken when a simple house rumor needs fake Canadian photos to be believable.

the_sean18d ago

My buddy Mark tried to report a pothole on his street last month. The city's website had a form with a photo example of a "typical road hazard." It was a picture of a huge sinkhole, like car-swallowing size, from a news story in Brazil. Just totally different. He still sent in his real pothole pic, but the whole thing felt silly. Why use a fake extreme example for something so basic? Makes you not want to bother.

paige_robinson245d ago

Ever think they use those crazy photos on purpose? Like if your pothole isn't car-sized, maybe you won't waste their time. Sets a weird standard where only disasters get fixed.

smith.elliot5d ago

Check the property records online, they're public. The listing agent probably just reused old photos from another sale, happens all the time. @the_sean had the right idea just sending in the real picture.

the_charlie18d ago

Disagree about the whole system being broken. Sometimes people just grab the wrong photo by mistake. I once saw a local news story about a new park that used a stock image from Australia, but the park itself was real. The internet moves fast and corners get cut, but that doesn't mean every single thing is fake. Most rumors start from a tiny bit of truth, even if the proof is sloppy.