What are the major world news that you got from weird sources (and maybe wish you had heard first from legit news sources)?

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What are the major world news that you got from weird sources (and maybe wish you had heard first from legit news sources)? - Lemmy.World

My random tales: One night, playing bunch of Halo, I got an Xbox 360 voice message. “Message to all recent players. Fukushima nuclear power plant just exploded. You should stock up on iodine tablets.” (I almost sent back a message saying “thanks for your concern, but I’m in the Chernobyl fallout zone and I turned out just fine thank you”) Pluto photographs from New Horizons? Frigging NASA retweet. Most recently, I got a random Discord message from a British YouTuber I follow saying “the Queen just died, please be respectful and stuff”.

I was on a MUD (old multi-player internet text rpg) called Three Kingdoms when Princess Diana died. Over a hundred people online at the time from all over the world.

It was a huge shock for everyone, followed by a strange communal grieving for a well-known and liked international figure.