18
Mar
2020
Right-wing media sources recycle the debunked UK best friend ban story as new news to generate outrage.
What I think is so fascinating is for, I don't know, the span of seven years, there's all these articles about the UK banning Best Friends. It doesn't. It's catnip to right-wing media sources. It is. It really is. It's wild. It's just that thing. They're just like, I want to yell about something, but there's nothing really big going on in the news today. I think I remember that story from like 10 years ago where Best Friends were maybe banned? And it's always presented as like this new thing. Yeah. In 2012, it was this new thing based on its own article. Absolutely. The next year in Fox News, it was being presented as a new thing. Brand new thing. Even though it was a year old article that was the source.