originally published in the Novel Science disinformation newsletter

Typo Reveals Local News Network Likely Controlled By Single Entity

Multiple seemingly unrelated news outlets tweeted identical comments within one minute of each other. The typo shows it was all from the same source.

E. Rosalie
2 min readMay 12, 2021

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Edited to add: These outlets are owned by Sinclair Broadcasting. A 2019 study by Emory University

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E. Rosalie

Disasters & information (public health + nat sec) | Johns Hopkins alum | @COVID19Tracking alum | Mapping medical misinfo 💉 and information disorder