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An Amazon Alexa error is sparking conspiracy theories about Hurricane Milton on TikTok
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Yet another case of Fandom causing problems for search engines. This happened recently where Fandom's SEO abuse was causing Google to claim a sequel to Bugsnax was in development, which is not true.
Fandom needs to be shut down. They're making the internet worse.
It doesn’t need to be shut down but not indexing it would solve your problems
fandom is finally causing good things to happen (spreading misinformation to idiots that use Alexa), it should never absorbed gamepedia but now it is actually being useful.
You know Milton is going to kill people, right?
yes
And you think that people dying is worth it to show that Alexa spreads misinformation?
I think people trusting Alexa for information regarding a hurricane probably deserved it.
Who else in your estimation deserves to die? Should we just set up camps to take care of it quickly and stop them from being a drag on the economy?
let's start with the politicians who voted against bills that would reduce carbon emissions.
So we should put people who trust Alexa for hurricane information and certain politicians in death camps. I see.
I think you are probably not worth listening to or talking to, especially after a quick check of your recent comments.
The word 'deserve' is a human concept invented purely to assert a false sense of control over a universe which has no interest in you.
I am assuming the government issued a severe weather alert and that just about everyone with an Alexa has a phone. the overlap of people that will find the setting to turn off severe weather alerts on their phones and trust Alexa is probably small, especially if Alexa says the source of fandom.com