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Serious question, the guy who cleaned my gutters in Boise last July said one line that made me rethink how I spot fake "local news" pages
He pointed at a post about a missing kid in a Boise Facebook group and asked why a page with 12,000 followers had no address and posted the same story in 8 different states that week. I want a real rundown on how these pages build trust fast, what the tells are before you tap share, and whether there's any tracker once a fake story jumps to your own feed. Anyone got a method that isn't just reverse image searching?
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gracethomas15d ago
Dude yes, I saw the exact same thing with a "Texas Breaking News" page that was posting about a crash in Florida the next day. The tell for me now is when every post has that same breathless tone and the comments are all from accounts with no profile pics, that's when I bail before sharing.
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