Pranksters hit The Independent with URL trickery
The Independent has a problem, and it’s hilarious. What was an innocent story on Kate Middleton and a lookalike jellybean turned into a storm after the original clean URL was sent around the Twitterverse as : ‘/utter-PR-fiction-but-people-love-this-shit-so-fuck-it-lets-just-print-it-2269573.html’. The Indy has a clever feature which allows people to share personalised links by keeping the article ID in the URL. Except, it’s a prankster haven.
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