01-09-2018, 01:30 PM
|
|
|
l8r
Industry Role:
Join Date: Oct 2002
Posts: 13,513
|
https://heavy.com/news/2018/01/shane...ook-fake-hoax/
Quote:
Starbucks Says Facebook Post by ?Black Employee? Is Fake
Facebook post purported to be written by a black Starbucks employee from Atlanta named Shanell Rivers that has been passed around 4chan and elsewhere on social media is fake, the coffee company says.
?Nobody by the name of Shanell Rivers works for, or has worked for, Starbucks,? the company said in a statement to Heavy. ?These posts are fake, and were created with malicious intent. We are working with local authorities to determine how these fake posts were created and circulated.?
The post began to spread on social media Sunday. In the post, a woman named Shanell Rivers writes, ?When you work in Starbucks in Atlanta and did the following this week.? Rivers then lists a series of things, including spitting in a white woman?s coffee, putting blood in the ?strawberry jam of a white man?s bagel? and pocketing an extra $94 by overcharging.
....................
|
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.21406b1ecbc3
Quote:
A Starbucks briefly closed after a hoax about a barista defiling white people?s food went viral
The admissions from a Starbucks employee were apparently too revolting not to share. Spitting in a woman?s coffee, sprinkling dog feces in a child?s hot chocolate, mixing blood into jam ? all were disgusting acts, presumably committed by a black woman, Shanell Rivers, targeting white customers in the Atlanta area and detailed on Facebook for the world to see.
By Sunday night, as images of the post mushroomed on social media, Starbucks was trying to reassure customers that the post was a fake that was ?maliciously? created. But that was after a store?s phone started ringing in an Atlanta suburb, with threats coming from the other end of the line.
The digital outrage spurred real-life consequences Sunday, forcing the store in Brookhaven, north of Atlanta, to close two hours early, a Starbucks corporate staffer told The Washington Post. Maj. Brandon Gurley, a Brookhaven Police Department spokesman, said police responded with additional patrols in the area. Authorities have also launched an investigation to determine how the false information spread, Gurley said.
The incident marks a growing headache for law enforcement: accusations or claims of salacious behavior weaponized on social media and taken offline to produce real-world potential for harm.
|
.
|
|
|