A viral news story on TikTok about “Douglass Barnes” who carried out an “eye for an eye” murder on a cop’s daughter is made up, police say.
The post was made by an account called Dax News which has since been deleted but the post remains on multiple pages on TikTok with users falling hook, line, and sinker for the ruse; leaving impassioned comments beneath the posts. The story revolves around Livonia High School but no such school exists and the mugshot of Barnes has only existed online for a few days according to a Google Reverse Image search; a big clue that it was AI-generated. Local Detroit media
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