The BBC ran a story about a Muslim family who upped sticks from the city and bought a farm in rural Wales, and how they’re encouraging more diverse people from cities to enjoy the outdoors. You can read it here.

The headline now reads Muslim farmer wants more diverse rural visitors. But it didn’t when they posted it as evidenced by the Tweet linked in this post, as they can’t change that.

For anyone who can’t follow the Twitter link (Nitter couldn’t find it even with a link, sorry) the original headline was this:

Muslim farmer wants more ethnicity in rural Wales

A headline that very deliberately baited a massive number of racists who predictably used it to tout great replacement theory.

  • footfaults [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    But when you use the Twitter API to make those previews, you get to set your own media and summary. They did it to themselves, and I’m sure it was on purpose for rage bait