Just a quick update on an earlier post: the twitter account that announced a vigil for Darren Wilson, claiming to be the Temple University White Students Union, has revealed that the event was fake, and that the account was started “as a social experiment to see how much fact checking people do before believing what they read on the internet.”
No reply yet to a request to elaborate, but as Chris Krewson of Billy Penn aptly noted, at least it wasn’t racist.
And there’s nothing generally questionable about doing mass, anonymous “social experiments” based on incredibly sensitive and incendiary topics, so we can assume it’s a responsible party.
The account deleted its previous tweets thanking people for attending a fundraiser and advertising a vigil to be held tomorrow night at Temple’s Bell Tower.
