I am fascinated by the ideas of social media serial killers. There is an episode of Criminal Minds where the perpetrator finds his victims on social media and he befriends them online and eventually kills them. Then, he makes a blog post, JUST LIKE THIS ONE, detailing her death and presenting it as fiction.

DUN DUN DUN... Anyway he gets caught.

As a forensic gal, the topic of bad guys on the web is very interesting to me, though I confess I know little about it. The dark web is essentially that shady warehouse in he middle of nowhere that every one knows exists and houses the black market, but no one legitimate actually knows where it is. It is where sociopaths and serial killers swap stories, sell children, sex slaves, and other horrible goods and services.

But that is the future, and not the NOW. But to be quite honest I'm running out of things to say about Fake news and filter bubbles. They are epidemics that need quashed, but it's going to be very difficult to do so.

My mother once told me a story about a news station that pranked its audience by tellling them that the spaghetti trees had yielded very little that season. It was BBC on April Fool's in 1957, I just found the wiki page. Anyway, a TON of people believed the broadcast and the results were quite dramatic.

This wasn't exactly fake news, but it sure was spreading misinformation. For those of you unaware, spaghetti does not grow from trees. It is made from wheat. This misinformation game is nothing new. In fact, I doubt this was even the first case of such a prank. We've let it get so much worse as the years have gone by, no longer is it an amusing joke. An now we must lie in the bed we have made.