A New York subway rider has accused a woman of breaking his Meta smart glasses. She was later hailed as a hero.
  • Wren@lemmy.todayEnglish
    50·
    11 hours ago

    I can’t find this story backed up anywhere outside of news aggregator sites. Futurism has blatantly made shit up before.

    Where’s the full video if he was recording? All we see is a guy holding broken glasses and a woman standing. Why didn’t the journalist reach out to the guy for more details? Or try to find out who the woman was? Why no other angles, people recording with their phones, other witnesseses posting to social media?

    90% sure this is fake and or staged.

    • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      6 hours ago

      Where’s the full video if he was recording?

      I just figure that the video contradicts what the guy said, and therefore, he opted not to put it on the Internet.

  • KnitWit@lemmy.worldEnglish
    705·
    11 hours ago

    Fake. Wish this would stop being reposted.

    Edit: it’s a less than 10 second video with multiple camera cuts in it, where someone else was filming the guy saying someone broke his glasses. The shot then quickly cuts to a perfect view of the woman, who doesn’t look at all like someone who just got pissed off and snapped someones’ glasses in half. None of the other riders look like any of what he claims to have happened just happened. The guy who posted the video has like 4 other videos posted before this one, and said he was trying to get a tiktok deal.

    The video is a fake.

    • jaschen306@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      67·
      6 hours ago

      I have a pair and I record videos of my kids while both hands are hugging them.

      The other day, my son was doing the silliest dance when my arms was full of groceries. I triggered the recording and captured the memory.

      You can be creepy with any device. It’s not the equipment. It’s the person.

  • rozodru@pie.andmc.caEnglish
    431·
    12 hours ago

    “people were literally crying laughing” I’ve never wanted to punch someone in the throat more than this ass clown.

  • pelespirit@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    231·
    12 hours ago

    “‘People were crying laughing’ — I’ve never heard a less plausible NYC subway story,” one user wrote.

  • Kiernian@lemmy.worldEnglish
    149·
    11 hours ago

    Oh good. /s

    Let’s push the idea that “good people are tired of being filmed by creeps”.

    Start the narrative out nice and soft.

    Countdown to "it’s okay to smash the phones of people filming ICE agents doing their jobs"or whatever agenda is most on the radar of people who are against video accountability when they’re in the wrong.

    I don’t particularly like the concept of these glasses or the fact that creeps will use them, but this is not how we tackle a problem we already have with creeps being able to use cell phones and easy-to-hide body cams.

    Puff pieces like this are how narratives get used to put bad things into law.

    Remember Cambridge Analytica and note the current state of xitter.