I didn’t know about the earlier thread - what was a “hoax” was the video of the decades-long natural gas crater fire in Azerbaijan was being posted as supposedly being the impact crater.
The problem is that natural gas fire crater looks like the meteorite craters from bad movies.
One tip-off for false meteor falls in general is reports that they started fires, etc. Small meteors actually land at room temperature.
It was quickly identified as such within the thread. Not sure if it was moved before or after though. That one link should have been deleted, imo. Others pointed to the source - RT - as the problem. Honestly, I think the mod saw the phrase “sparks UFO fears” as was in the original headline and “filed” it in chat.
Not that it matters at this point, and it wasn’t my thread or anything. It was just frustrating is all. People rely on the AP reporting of something to establish validity too often, imo. Just a pet peeve of mine since an interaction I had on election night with the editor of my local paper... :)