Sunday Times journalist posts fake post on MN and quotes responses as research.

[TeachesOfPeaches]

Not just the Daily Mail employing lazy copy and paste hacks.

It's never just been the Daily Mail. MN is picked up by all media ... all over the world.

Read this from MN's FAQs.

And there's another thread which was started recently which tells of a website in Australia using MN threads.

This is an open forum, open for anyone to read - and 'lift' content.

Lazy journalism, yes. But that's the way of the world these days.

And, yes, sorry to answer your OP. I don't think there's anything surprising about journalists joining and posting fake threads - they've been doing it for years!

Usually the DM screenshots slabs or used to namecheck

That below is lazy indeed, hard-pressed for new content

Not really news, they've always done it.

Well didn't they believe Hitler's diaries had been found?