Ahiahi mārie, welcome to The Spinoff Daily. Today on The Spinoff: what’s the point of the party-hopping law if no one’s going to use it, what Madam gets right (and wrong) about sex work and how to protect your family against the ‘pornographic’ threat of g-strings.
“According to Facebook, Rachel House is dead, Daniel Radcliffe is starring in a new Harry Potter film, and a woman with nipples for knees is the dream girl some men desire. None of these things are true or real. Click the link on a recent post in my newsfeed about the whole country mourning a tragic loss and saying goodbye to Rachel House, and you’ll find a pretty good spoof of the Stuff website with a completely made-up story about Newstalk ZB and a celebrity scandal ‘written’ by Sam Sherwood. Sherwood is a real senior journalist at Stuff reporting on crime. He did not write this story. It’s from a family of scams known as FizzCore or Celebcore, and they are rampant on Facebook. Other well-known New Zealanders who’ve apparently ruined their lives and shocked the nation recently include Hayley Holt, Jenny-May Clarkson and Clarke Gayford. In response to the scam using sensationalist headlines about Gayford, Meta (Facebook’s parent company) told the Herald it had removed the ads and that the company had removed 631 million fake accounts globally in the first quarter of 2024 alone.”
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