“Immediate red flags,” Taylor Agajanian says of her initial reaction to the serial killer rumor shared and side-eyed in Seattle over the weekend.
On Saturday, the Seattle Police Department and King County Sheriff’s Office refuted scuttlebutt that they were investigating a series of connected murders. But before the authorities weighed in, the Misinformation Age’s version of a game of telephone played out on social media—and riled up a researcher at the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public, our resident think tank for curbing false fodder.
Like countless others last week, the 31-year-old Agajanian received a screenshot from a friend with a haunting message: Several women in their 30s, after nights out
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