r/TrueReddit • u/wiredmagazine Official Publication • 6d ago

Politics How Disinformation About the Minnesota Shooting Spread Like Wildfire on X

https://www.wired.com/story/disinformation-minnesota-shooting-x/
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u/bliceroquququq 6d ago edited 5d ago

Title of the article: "How Disinformation About the Minnesota Shooting Spread Like Wildfire on X"

Actual examples given of the "dangerous disinformation" that spread on X: None.

Literally none.

Edit: You know I'm right, but that makes you upset, so just smash that downvote button.

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u/asmrkage 6d ago

The ‘disinformation’ was people claiming to know the shooters motives, which were later shown to be unlikely (ie angry trans vengeance against Catholics).  But by then it’s too late to clarify anything because social media does its thing.  But, speculation is nothing new.  I suppose the difference now is that political propaganda machines/bots can spread their “speculations” far and wide with no consequence on platforms like X, and so it becomes a stronger version of speculation, ie explicitly political propagandic misinformation, because they never have a need to correct their speculations when proven wrong because X doesn’t give a shit.  It’s part of our ongoing post-Truth societal collapse, and there’s no doubt that X is a large driver of it.

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u/bliceroquququq 5d ago

were later shown to be unlikely (ie angry trans vengeance against Catholics)

Wut? What part of that sentence has been "shown to be unlikely"? Please be specific.

Were they not trans?

Were they not angry?

Did they not deliberately murder Catholic school children, after drawing a detailed map of said Catholic school as part of their planned attack on it?

Please, which part of this was "dangerous misinformation"?

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u/asmrkage 5d ago

So, should I assume you just pretended to read the article in your original reply?  Wow, I am very shocked.  Stick with your political cult subs, it’s easier to mentally digest.