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by snowwrestler 3460 days ago
Yes--thank you. I wrote from memory and screwed up the attribution, thereby fulfilling the stereotype of the typical American who can't tell European nations apart from one another.

This tiny little episode shows how easy it can be for wrong info to spread. I should have looked up the Buzzfeed story to confirm the country, but I winged it, and got it wrong.

So was my comment "fake news"? I don't think so, of course. I didn't set out to fool anybody, it was just a mistake. But it did push out a false fact to everyone who saw my comment.