Detik, you’ve done it again

I’m now questioning the wisdom of Yahoo! for cutting a deal with Detik to provide them with news feed for the Indonesian market after Detik fed them this crap.

The title is: Tengkorak Vampir Wanita Ditemukan di Italia
or in English: Female Vampire Skull Found in Italy
Detik never bothered to mention that the whole vampire thing was a misunderstanding by the people of that time due to lack of knowledge. Not a single line mentioned this fact. 
That is a skull of a woman who was thought to have been a vampire because when they dug her grave to make way for more victims of the plague, her body had not fully decomposed yet and it looked like she ate through her shroud. The miseducated masses thought she was a vampire feeding on the corpses around her.
Sensationalist journalism can kiss my ass.
Here’s a proper article on that subject from Livescience 
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