Van plows into sidewalk, Barcelona.

Van plows into sidewalk, Barcelona. One dead, others wounded. Under the admission of anchormen, no other information is available at this time. Headlines read, "Likely Terror Attack", "Everyone screaming, running". Hysteria is hyped. Vehicular manslaughter is swiftly branded "terrorism"

31 minutes elapsed. Police still searching for a suspect. No new info available. NYTimes casually states that Islamic extremists have been staging attacks involving motor vehicles. A nameless civilian heard gunshots. Unconfirmed by police, but you'd better be afraid anyways. Conclusions are reached before evidence examined.

Publicizing serves to incentivize, and normalize - inspiring some of us, and numbing the rest of us.

"We simply DON'T KNOW", says the host. "Could be a HOSTAGE SITUATION", he says next. "Goodness knows what this could have been", the female anchor chimes in, "Could have been an ACT OF TERROR", she says, wild with speculation.

Man hears explosions, media reports, police deny. Networks admit to not knowing while simultaneously planting the seeds of terror in their homeland. American counter-terrorism forces offer assistance to Spain for a hit and run. Fleeing civilians are told via megaphone that they are "dealing with a terrorist attack"

CNN states that police are "urging people to stay away from social media, and to stay away from posting any videos or images".

Please don't share any actual accounts of what happened. Only listen to us. It was terror, probably middle-eastern.