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Creator of viral glitter bomb video admits parts of it were staged
This week, it seemed the entire Internet rejoiced after a former NASA engineer created a custom glitter bomb designed to strike back against package thieves. His impressive invention resulted in a hilarious video of would-be criminals being coated in glitter and having their nostrils assaulted with a fart spray. But it seems the clip, which racked up more than 42 million views in just a few days, was a little too good to be true -- its creator admits parts of it were staged, seemingly without his knowledge.
Mark Rober cut around 90 seconds from the video and reuploaded it to remove a segment in which a friend of a friend borrowed the device. As it turns out, that person recruited their own friends to pose as victims. Rober apologized for the ruse.
"Ultimately, I am responsible for the content that goes on my channel and I should have done more here," he wrote in an apology tweet. "I can vouch that the reactions were genuine when the package was taken from my house."
Previously: Hacker Makes a Flawless Booby Trap, Strikes Back Against Package Thieves
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 24 2018, @12:36PM
when you go put this funny paper into voting box with conviction that it's your decision and it will make some consequences. All media work this way, this "so independent" Internet gave up the last around 2005 (at least in my part of the Net).
I found the best way to get more or less objective news by tenfold filtering information in radical left/right sites. Because all other sites just have another goals - if the goal is to make money, the information does not need to be real, needs to be sold.