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If you’ve been on Twitter the past couple of hours, you may have heard of something called Fyre Fest, and you may have heard that it’s already a disaster, even though it technically wasn’t supposed to start until today. The music festival, which was billed as a luxury experience in the Bahamas, has been “fully postponed,” which is fancy festival speak for “canceled.” The ticket holders who made it to the fest are currently stranded on the island of Exuma, living in what some have called a “tent city.” Others never even left Miami. The festival’s website is currently just a placeholder for an apology letter.

Fyre Fest was the brainchild of Fyre Media, a startup owned by Ja Rule and Billy MacFarland. Tickets reportedly cost between $450...

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