Your turn: what's the strangest message you received this month?

Lina Hammoud

By the end of our training, one wall was covered in sticky notes: every message, rumour and "urgent warning" that had reached us in the weeks before. Some were funny, some were scary, and a few were things all of us had believed at some point.

So let's do the same here. Share in the comments the strangest message that landed on your phone this month, and how you checked it, or why you didn't.

A few rules, so it stays useful

  • Describe the message. Please don't paste links to the original rumour or share personal details of anyone in it.
  • Say how you checked it, even if you didn't find an answer.
  • Be kind. Everyone has believed something false at least once.

I'll start in the comments.

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