I’m seeing a bunch of posts insinuating that this most recent assassination attempt was fake. Why do people think this? I’m out of the loop.
I’m seeing a bunch of posts insinuating that this most recent assassination attempt was fake. Why do people think this? I’m out of the loop.
This seems like an organized propaganda campaign to simply disrupt and people are falling for it.
It’s likely not fake but Russia and China have official policies for spreading firehose of falsehoods whenever anything happens. They don’t even have to invent anything just amplify enough for grifters and memers to take off from there.
We are so fucked and people have just given up on finding reality sadly.
Even journalists are losing it. 60 minutes doing interview immediately without any research or preparation or time for story to develop is peak nail in the coffin for our information landscape. It’s literally the slow journalist group and they couldn’t slow down. We didn’t even need AI.
I still don’t understand why hostile nations push conspiracy theories. what is it supposed to be doing for them exactly? is it supposed to get another Trump elected?
Destabilising the US from within creates domestic pressure that affect its ability to lead on the global stage, creating space and opportunity for aspiring superpowers like Russia and China to influence and shape the world. It also undermines the trust of US allies and partners.
Divide and conquer, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firehose_of_falsehood etc. etc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monsters_Are_Due_on_Maple_Street, agreeing with the other divide and conquer answer but with an episode of the Twilight Zone as an example
who do you think trump learned it from, PUTIN, putin has done quite a few false flags since the ukraine war and before that too.