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A sign hung in Port Coquitlam advertising a “whites-only” moms and tots group is causing outrage online after photos of a poster were shared on social media.

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[–] Shapillon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The City of Port Coquitlam also commented to say, “Thank you for bringing [the sign] to our attention earlier. Bylaw officers are out taking them down.”

They also apparently put the fakeflyer out there.

While the Telegram group is private, messages from the chat can be previewed. In the previewed messages, the administrator says they are “encouraged by the response” the group has gotten [...]

And populated the telegram channel with fake messages.

I'm not sure how you wiekd Occam's razor but it's becoming a pretty elaborate con for just some internet clout.

[–] pixxelkick@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

They also apparently put the fakeflyer out there.

Not sure what you are talking about. The City itself was told that the flyer existed, they dont have to be "in on it" to respond like that.

If you post up a fake flyer, the city will take it down and respond the way you said. It's not that complicated.

And populated the telegram channel with fake messages.

Indeed, theres a whopping two whole messages on the telegram, posted minutes apart, and both of them were posted about an hour before the post of the flyer was put up on instagram/twitter, and no further messages have been posted to the channel since then, no members added, etc. It appears to be effectively abandoned minutes after it was made.

It literally only has those 2 messages and thats it, and they come out to a grand total of like, 4 lines of text total.

Do you think that sounds like a totally legit telegram account chat group? Cuz that sure sounds fake as fuck to me lol