"An Omaha woman got a surprise visitor when she found an opossum sprawled out on her porch couch—panting, satisfied, and covered in chocolate after devouring an entire Costco tuxedo chocolate mousse cake. Dubbed the “Cake Bandit,” the opossum was admitted to Nebraska Wildlife Rehab, where she’s recovering not just from her indulgence but also from lead toxicity, a condition that may have gone unnoticed without her viral cake heist.
Social media users are rallying behind the furry food thief, with comments like, “We’ve all been there, girl.” Meanwhile, Nebraska Wildlife Rehab is selling “Cake Bandit” T-shirts, turning the scandal into a fundraiser to support native wildlife.
The opossum is expected to make a full recovery and will be released back into the wild by late March or early April—hopefully with a newfound taste for something less decadent.
"An Omaha woman got a surprise visitor when she found an opossum sprawled out on her porch couch—panting, satisfied, and covered in chocolate after devouring an entire Costco tuxedo chocolate mousse cake. Dubbed the “Cake Bandit,” the opossum was admitted to Nebraska Wildlife Rehab, where she’s recovering not just from her indulgence but also from lead toxicity, a condition that may have gone unnoticed without her viral cake heist.
Social media users are rallying behind the furry food thief, with comments like, “We’ve all been there, girl.” Meanwhile, Nebraska Wildlife Rehab is selling “Cake Bandit” T-shirts, turning the scandal into a fundraiser to support native wildlife.
The opossum is expected to make a full recovery and will be released back into the wild by late March or early April—hopefully with a newfound taste for something less decadent.
The channel appears to be part of the broader information war that has developed following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The Kremlin has paid Russian TikTok influencers to push propaganda, according to a Vice News investigation, while ProPublica found that fake Russian fact check videos had been viewed over a million times on Telegram. The War on Fakes channel has repeatedly attempted to push conspiracies that footage from Ukraine is somehow being falsified. One post on the channel from February 24 claimed without evidence that a widely viewed photo of a Ukrainian woman injured in an airstrike in the city of Chuhuiv was doctored and that the woman was seen in a different photo days later without injuries. The post, which has over 600,000 views, also baselessly claimed that the woman's blood was actually makeup or grape juice. 'Wild West' Perpetrators of such fraud use various marketing techniques to attract subscribers on their social media channels. Asked about its stance on disinformation, Telegram spokesperson Remi Vaughn told AFP: "As noted by our CEO, the sheer volume of information being shared on channels makes it extremely difficult to verify, so it's important that users double-check what they read."
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