“牛油果当手榴弹抢酒铺”疯传帖是假消息 当地报纸核查:店不存在、无此逮捕

一条说佛罗里达州 Pensacola 一名男子拿牛油果假扮手榴弹抢酒铺的帖子,近日在 Facebook 和 X 上疯传。佛罗里达州 Pensacola 当地报纸《Pensacola News Journal》11月10日逐项核查后认定,这是一条假消息:帖中所说的酒铺在埃斯坎比亚县根本不存在,当地逮捕记录里也没有这个人,这件事没有发生过。
网传帖称,29岁的 Dylan Raines 走进一家名为 Gulf Coast Spirits 的酒铺,拿着一颗涂得像手榴弹的牛油果要钱,还说自己会“拉开插销”;帖子还编了一个细节,称店里的收银员 Marcus Bell 恰好是综合格斗选手,当场把 Raines 制服,Raines 随后被 Pensacola 警察局逮捕。《Pensacola News Journal》核查发现,埃斯坎比亚县没有 Gulf Coast Spirits 这家店,同名酒铺最近的一家在路易斯安那州;埃斯坎比亚县的逮捕记录里也查不到名为 Dylan Raines 的人。
据《Pensacola News Journal》报道,这条帖最早出现在11月4日一个名为“Post of The Day”的 Facebook 页面上。该页面有超过10.2万名关注者,自我介绍写明是讽刺页面,帖子多为超级智能(SI)生成的粗俗幽默图片,不少写得像本地新闻。原帖被分享超过1,700次,随后被一批专做疯传内容的页面转走,包括 Pensacola 本地群组和一个有超过3,400万名关注者的“Tipsy Bartender”页面,转发时都没有带上“讽刺”的说明。有些页面还改写了这条假消息,并在文末假称消息来自 NBC News 和《Pensacola News Journal》;该报明确表示,两家都没有发过这样的报道,在这篇核查稿之前也没有报道过这起所谓的抢劫。
该报还指出,在 Google 上搜这件事的人也可能被误导:Google 的 Gemini 会把这条假消息当成真事复述,并把社交帖子链接当作来源列出来。这条假消息里只有一点真实影子,而且与 Pensacola 无关:2019年以色列曾有一名47岁男子把牛油果做得像手榴弹、用它抢了两家银行后被捕,当时以色列可信媒体报道过此事,国际媒体也跟进过。该报称,多数超级智能公司会拿这类新闻故事当训练数据。GSM 不转载网传帖的生成配图,本稿只按当地报纸的核查结果报道。
Viral 'Avocado as Grenade' Liquor-Store Robbery Post Is Fake, Local Paper Finds: No Such Store, No Such Arrest
A post claiming a man in Pensacola, Florida, robbed a liquor store with an avocado painted to look like a grenade has gone viral on Facebook and X. The Pensacola News Journal, the city's local newspaper, checked the claim item by item on November 10 and found it was fake: the liquor store named in the post does not exist in Escambia County, there is no arrest record for the man named, and the incident never happened.
The viral post claimed that Dylan Raines, 29, entered a store called Gulf Coast Spirits, demanded money with an avocado and said he would 'pull the pin.' It added that a cashier named Marcus Bell, who happened to be a mixed martial artist, took Raines down and that Raines was arrested by the Pensacola Police Department. The News Journal found no Gulf Coast Spirits in Escambia County — the closest liquor store with that name is in Louisiana — and Escambia County arrest records show no one named Dylan Raines being arrested.
According to the News Journal, the post originated on November 4 on a Facebook page called 'Post of The Day.' The page has more than 102,000 followers and describes itself as satire; its posts consist of AI-generated images of crude humor, many written like local news stories. The original post was shared more than 1,700 times and was then picked up by pages built around sharing viral content, including local Pensacola groups and a page called 'Tipsy Bartender' with more than 34 million followers, without the satire disclosure. Some pages rewrote the story and falsely credited NBC News and the Pensacola News Journal as the source; the paper said neither outlet had made those claims and neither had published any story on the alleged crime before this fact-check.
The paper also noted that people who search for the story on Google can be misled, because Google's Gemini repeats the story as a real incident and links to the social media posts as sources. There is a small grain of truth behind the tale, but nothing related to Pensacola: in 2019, a 47-year-old man in Israel was arrested after robbing two banks with an avocado made to look like a grenade, a story credible Israeli outlets reported at the time and international press picked up. The paper said most AI companies use news stories like the 2019 one as training data. GSM does not republish the generated image from the viral post and reports only what the local paper's check established.
来源:Pensacola News Journal
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图片来源:图:Hass 牛油果资料图,一颗完整、一颗切开(Ivar Leidus 摄,CC BY-SA 4.0,经 Wikimedia Commons),已裁为16:9,非网传帖配图。/ A Hass avocado, whole and halved, a file photo (by Ivar Leidus, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons), cropped to 16:9; not an image from the viral post.
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