Catchy headline huh? And shocking picture too, I mean that is a BIG elephant! Maybe this caught your eye and you just had to click to hear the rest of story. This is what http://www.xojane.com/ was counting on when they posted this story:
This is truly terrible! A little girl was raped at Disney World and no one cared? Shame on Disney World! Everyone should know about this injustice so we better share on facebook, right? Thing is it never happened. When you read the article you find out a different story. Turns out it was a 21+ college student working at Disney World who went to a party with a co-worker, got drunk, went home with guy and said no but sex happened anyway hence the rape.
Don't get me wrong, I'm anti-rape just like everyone else. I just think attempts at viral traffic like this don't help the cause at all. I walk away from this article questioning the validity of the rape the author claims. If she was willing to mislead people to get attention to her article is it possible she did the same thing when she was employed by Disney World?
What do you think? Is claiming a child was raped in order to get more visitors to your website out of line? Leave a comment below.
Don't get me wrong, I'm anti-rape just like everyone else. I just think attempts at viral traffic like this don't help the cause at all. I walk away from this article questioning the validity of the rape the author claims. If she was willing to mislead people to get attention to her article is it possible she did the same thing when she was employed by Disney World?
What do you think? Is claiming a child was raped in order to get more visitors to your website out of line? Leave a comment below.
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