Wildfire alert backfires as public blocks all government warnings

josephcsible 14 points 5 comments August 16, 2026
www.telegraph.co.uk · View on Hacker News

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squidbeak

Never keen to exceed my low expectations of it, the Telegraph doesn't offer any data in support of its claim (ie that the public blocks all government warnings). The article rests on the indignation of a public policy analyst, a journalist and a group of X users. Typically wretched stuff from a formerly great broadsheet that these days is only reliable in organizing rabid pile-ons and hounding people to their deaths.

lithos

I turned mine off permanently after spending time in New Jersey, that region positively spammed them.

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