Tanya Vrebosch, deputy mayor of the Canadian city of North Bay, saw something strange when she checked her phone on Sunday: North Bay was a trending topic on her Twitter feed.
North Bay doesn’t do much trending – it’s a city of about 52,000 people in northern Ontario – so Vrebosch had a moment of intrigued anticipation, she told CNN on Monday. Were people tweeting, just maybe, about the city’s recent announcement that North Bay had set a new record for the value of its building construction?
Nope. Very much nope.
North Bay, Vrebosch learned, was “trending for something so stupid.” Specifically: a false
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