AUBURN, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — It’s like the old game of telephone, but now it’s with a real phone and social media at teenager’s fingertips causing chaos.
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“One kid shares it in class. By second period, everybody has it. Then the chaos and anxiety start again even though we’re already investigating the same post from yesterday, but it’s been reposted again and regenerated,” Auburn Superintendent Misty Slavic said.
There are social media threats that have originated from other states but spread quickly placing fear in Auburn and other Central New York schools.
“I know six or seven police departments within Central New York are dealing with this, but it’s happening in North Carolina, in Michigan. And that’s what we’re finding out, it’s the same message. It’s not even a different message. It’s the same one,” Chief of Auburn Police James Slayton said.