Hoaxmap is collecting debunked rumors about refugees - Polidicks

Source: [URL]http://www.poynter.org/2016/hoaxmap-is-collecting-debunked-rumors-about-refugees/398137/[/URL] [QUOTE]They filled up their shopping cart and said they wouldn't be paying for anything, informing a surprised cashier that Angela Merkel, the country's chancellor, would be picking up the tab. Following a standoff, the mayor of the town showed up and paid for the refugees' big shop. This would be a remarkable anecdote of how asylum seekers are taking advantage of Germany's "[URL="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/06/germany-refugee-crisis-syrian"]Wilkommenskultur[/URL]" — if it weren't for one detail.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE][URL="http://www.ruesselsheimer-echo.de/lokales/ruesselsheim/Buergermeister-dementiert-Geruechte;art57641,1835677"]It never happened[/URL]. The rumor is one of almost 300 to have been debunked on [URL="http://hoaxmap.org/"]Hoaxmap[/URL], a simple project set up this month by two Leipzig-based Germans in their thirties, Karolin Schwarz and Lutz Helm. The two decided to launch the project as they saw that last summer "the numbers of refugees were rising, and so were the rumors about refugees," they told me via email.[/QUOTE]

What about rumors that have been proven to be true? Anyone here disagrees with the notion that if someone were to make a website that showed proof to a lot of the 'rumors' they would be ostracized for it?

A website dedicated to debunking the myths of migrants sounds like a full time endeavor. The myths will simply do not cease. [editline]2nd March 2016[/editline] [QUOTE=pkhzor;49855226]What about rumors that have been proven to be true?[/QUOTE] They exist, and they are found in reputable news articles. Not the derivative sensationalist tabloid that is usually exclusively in the host nation's language we see poorly copied and translated via Google Translate.

[QUOTE=pkhzor;49855226]What about rumors that have been proven to be true? Anyone here disagrees with the notion that if someone were to make a website that showed proof to a lot of the 'rumors' they would be ostracized for it?[/QUOTE] Well, for that question to be answered then rumors would have to be tackled on an individual basis and more or less proven case by case as they are with this site, but I don't think there is generally a need to set up a site like that - things like the cologne attacks and other events that actually did happen didn't need much additional proof because it was already there. As Starpluck said.

Syrian refugees stole all my soap and replaced it with korans This service needs to expand outside of Europe, there haven't been any especially stupid rumours about refugees here yet but I bet there will be.