comments just said the ad is legal and click link to file a complaint :(
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axexrx@lemmy.world 19 hours agoThere was a reddit legal advice post recently with that premise. Poster’s sister was a schizophrenic named Carol, who checked herself into an inpatient mental facility, after seeing this ad on a smart fridge, and thinking her treatment was failing and she was slipping into another episode.
Brother was wondering if they had grounds to sue over treatment costs.
kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com 17 hours ago
Foni@piefed.zip 18 hours ago
I sincerely hope they win the case and receive a good compensation.
moakley@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
I’d be willing to bet that it’s fake.
Foni@piefed.zip 16 hours ago
Why? Carol doesn’t sound like a strange name and I know people with schizophrenia, if that happened to them they would surely be, at best, problematic.
moakley@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
The whole thing has a stink to it. Obviously I can’t be 100% certain, but whenever a story like that on reddit sounds a little too perfect, it’s probably made up.
Having more typos in the title than in the post is a hint.
It’s also just exactly the sort of thing that people will run away with on the internet. It’s hitting a hot button topic about something that people started seeing in memes a couple weeks ago.
Plus it’s too smooth. If the intention was to relay an event that actually happened, there’d be some kind of rough edge to it, something unexpected. But if the intention was to expand on that meme in an easily digestible way, this is what you’d get.
It’s not the most obviously fake post I’ve seen on reddit, and it’s possible I’m wrong. But like I said, I’d be willing bet on it.