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    EDIT: More recent reporting directly contradicts the Fox report below:

    A preliminary investigation has found that the car did not contain explosives, according to three law enforcement officials with knowledge of the matter, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss an open investigation.

    A law enforcement official briefed on the incident said investigators believed the explosion resulted from the impact of the collision. The car went airborne and struck a cement pillar, according to the official. A suitcase was found near the car but did not contain explosives, the official added.

    source: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/11/22/nyregion/rainbow-bridge-explosion-niagara-falls

    https://www.foxnews.com/us/ny-vehicle-explosion-reported-rainbow-bridge-niagara-falls-injured

    The FBI is investigating a vehicle explosion Wednesday at the Rainbow Bridge border crossing between the U.S. and Canada in what sources tell Fox News was an attempted terrorist attack.

    Explosives were in the vehicle at the time and two people who were in the car are dead, the sources told Fox News. A border officer was injured.

    (Note: I think Fox is the only news org reporting this. And it’s Fox.)

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        1 year ago

        I think most reporting is in line with NBC. The Fox report is worth noting but I wouldn’t trust it without corroboration, especially with unnamed sources.

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      If Fox “News” is ever the only entity reporting on a topic, then that topic is likely untrue.

      Fox “News” has testified multiple times in sworn court testimony that their content is not fact-based and that “no reasonable person could confuse” their content as factual reporting. They testified that their content is for entertainment only.

      We should never, ever look to Fox “News” for news as they are, by their own sworn description, never to be believed.

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        1 year ago

        That’s why I said to wait for corroboration. Fox would then be the first to report, not the only.

        I think most of us are mature enough to handle unconfirmed reports.

        They also didn’t make that argument about their content, they made it about their opinion personalities. Saying no reasonable person could take Tucker Carlson seriously isn’t the same as saying everything they publish is fiction. Yes, they suck and a world where they didn’t exist would be a better world but, unfortunately, we still live in a world where Fox News occasionally breaks a story.