No Laughing Matter: Sifting Through Confusion And Misinformation

The BDN Editorial Board operates independently from the newsroom, and does not set policies or contribute to reporting or editing articles elsewhere in the newspaper or on bangordailynews.com. There’s a parody Twitter account that looks like it might be an official one from the state of Maine. This fake account managed to cause some real confusion by tweeting right before National Coming Out Day that Maine was changing its state flag to a rainbow design. It should have been clear fairly quickly that this wasn’t a real post from the state of Maine.