He didn’t use the account, but he built that following by strategically following the right people, and allowing the Twitter algorithms to do the rest. The account managed to amass thousands of followers. Let’s keep walking through Flynn’s piece as he works his way through this:īack in August 2021, the guy created a Twitter account for Bishop Georg Bätzing, who is president of the German bishops’ conference. The key is that journalists had to stop and ponder whether they had the fortitude to not push the “RETWEET” button on a story that was essentially about Internet chatter. …īecause last night an Italian schoolteacher named Tommaso De Benedetti created a moral panic online, with a hoax that seems to have been in the works for nearly a year. … Pope emeritus Benedict XVI is still not dead. Thus, Flynn starts with this basic equation: This whole circus was a classic example of people being tempted to report, as semi-news, the fact that online people were TALKING ABOUT something that was being reported with zero creditable attribution. Flynn of The Pillar, that must-bookmark source of Catholic news, commentary and Canon law-specifics. In that final category, I offer you the following mini-think piece from J.D. Everyone was talking about this story last week: Pope Benedict XVI is (a) dead, (b) not dead or (c) come on, what’s up with this tired Internet game again?
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