THEY’VE HEARD A few things about Seattle on social media, those 40 million-plus visitors that are expected to come this year to the city and King County.

The thing about social media, stuff gets amplified, and amplified, and you might wonder if this is the Seattle that you know.

You might even be hosting some of these visitors.

Despite the turmoil this country is in, Visit Seattle, the nonprofit tourism group, expects those numbers to keep increasing, as they have since the pandemic. Summer is prime time.

Those visitors will arrive with a few perceptions of our town.

RIOTERS AREN’T RUNNING AMOK.

Here’s a posting on June 11 on TripAdvisor, the worldwide tourism site that claims half a billion unique monthly visitors. That’s a lot of amplification.

“Advice pls: Situation in Seattle ri

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