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Originally Posted by Bucco
I am assuming that you do not find my attempts to get folks to pay attention to the obvious dissent provided by each school shooting or other events to things like this......
"Within just hours of the school shooting that left 10 dead in Santa Fe, Texas, Friday, efforts were afoot to use social media to spread disinformation about the shooter and his actions. Many of those disinformation campaigns seemed focused primarily on politicizing the event, though what little is reliably known of the shooter presents an unclear picture of his political sentiments.
Within an hour of the shooting, according to the Washington Post, fake Facebook profiles had been created of the shooter which depicted him as a Hillary Clinton supporter, and part of the loose anti-fascist activist coalition known as ‘Antifa.’"
Trolls and Bots Move Fast to Politicize Texas School Shooting | Fortune
"In the first hours after the Texas school shooting that left at least 10 dead Friday, online hoaxers moved quickly to spread a viral lie, creating fake Facebook accounts with the suspected shooter's name and a doctored photo showing him wearing a "Hillary 2016" hat."
Fake Facebook accounts and online lies multiply in hours after Santa Fe school shooting - The Washington Post
Dimitrios Pagourtzis: Russian Trolls Instantly Spread Fake News Online About Alleged Santa Fe School Shooter
Now, things like this...here is what happens. A certain group will now go to the moderator and say this is political.
It is not political in any way. It seems this thread is an example of what these people want in this country and we simply ignore it for some reason.
You can put your heads in the sand, but our children should be allowed to know truth. |
I have no issue with any of your posts or positions taken.
We all have our own optics and beliefs.
My recent responses are merely counterpoint to the automatic repetitive rhetoric that does nothing but focus on the NRA.
I think the thread should be allowed to play out as it is an issue of significance that unfortunately takes new shootings to revive the real sense of urgency...all obscured by the unfortunate political and media agendas.