News reports were awash in misinformation following an explosion at the Canada-U.S. border crossing at Rainbow Bridge near Niagara Falls.
Some U.S. media began describing it as a terrorist explosion, caused by a vehicle entering from Canada.
Every element of that preceding sentence was dispelled within hours as flat-out wrong.
There was no attack from Canada; the incident occurred entirely on U.S. soil; in fact, authorities don’t believe it was a terrorist attack at all.
That didn’t stop a candidate for president of the United States from appearing on Fox News to promote an aspect of his platform: Building a border wall with Canada.
i’d say potentially here you need to be MORE careful… considering the open and volunteer nature of the fediverse, it’s pretty hard to control information, which makes MISinformation really easy to propagate