If you're wondering what the #JohnMastodon thing is about...

...here you go. Captured by the Wayback Machine for you, as the author has since realised he'd misread the Join Mastodon account name. šŸ˜‚

And thusly, the legend of John Mastodon is born.

@mikegalsworthy We’re all laughing and having a good time about this ā€œjournalist’s mistakeā€, (Issac Schorr) but this guy committed not only malpractice but fabricated an entire person and narrative. He should never be paid to write again. Not an innocent mistake. The chatbots write more legitimate news than this guy.