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Grave peril of digital conspiracy theories: ‘What happens when no one believes anything anymore?’
AP ^ | 01/31/24 | DAVID KLEPPER

Posted on 02/01/2024 12:30:35 PM PST by mcenedo

Days after Maui’s wildfires killed scores of people and destroyed thousands of homes last August, a shocking claim spread with alarming speed on YouTube and TikTok: The blaze on the Hawaiian island was set deliberately, using futuristic energy weapons developed by the U.S. military.

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bias; conspiracytheories; dew; media
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To: mcenedo

“Grave peril of digital conspiracy theories: ‘What happens when no one believes anything anymore?’”

i’ve always believed that was a major goal of the fascist left, namely to destroy all institutions that heretofore had enough credibility to be sources of relative truth ... when there are no trusted sources, then there is no truth ...


41 posted on 02/01/2024 2:36:10 PM PST by catnipman (A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil)
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To: mcenedo

If only there could be some kind of supranational body to remedy this problem, like a ‘Ministry” or something.
Could be run from Switzerland maybe.


42 posted on 02/01/2024 2:36:44 PM PST by A strike (Words can have gender, humans cannot.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

This is why one should vote TRUMP 2024.

He is believe it or not the
very last stronghold for America
in rejection of the WEF .


43 posted on 02/01/2024 2:41:37 PM PST by thesligoduffyflynns (WHEN 💎GOING THROUGH KEEP GOING💎 IF IT DOESNT KiILL YOU IT will MAKE YOU STRONGER💎)
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To: mcenedo
"Days after Maui’s wildfires killed scores of people and destroyed thousands of homes last August, a shocking claim spread with alarming speed on YouTube and TikTok: The blaze on the Hawaiian island was set deliberately, using futuristic energy weapons developed by the U.S. military."

How murderously ironic that this crAPo pos shit brazenly attempts to rewrite history when crAPo THEMSELVES admitted the multiple failures by the neomarxist nimrods that rule Hawaii committed a typically neomarxist minor act of genocide:

WAILUKU, Hawaii (AP) — "In the hours before a wildfire engulfed the town of Lahaina, Maui County officials failed to activate sirens that would have warned the entire population of the approaching flames and instead relied on a series of sometimes confusing social media posts that reached a much smaller audience.

Power and cellular outages for residents further stymied communication efforts. Radio reports were scarce, some survivors reported, even as the blaze began to consume the town. Road blocks then forced fleeing drivers onto one narrow downtown street, creating a bottleneck that was quickly surrounded by flames on all sides. At least 80 people have been confirmed dead so far.

The silent sirens have raised questions about whether everything was done to alert the public in a state that possesses an elaborate emergency warning system for a variety of dangers including wars, volcanoes, hurricanes and wildfires.

The Lahaina fire, meanwhile, had escaped containment and forced the closure of the Lahaina Bypass road by 3:30 p.m. The announcement, however, didn’t make it into a county fire update until 4:45 p.m. and didn’t show up on the county Facebook page until nearly 5 p.m., when survivors say flames were surrounding the cars of families trapped downtown.

But while the Lahaina fire was spreading, Maui County and Hawaii Emergency Management Agency officials were making other urgent announcements — including a Facebook post about additional evacuations near the Upcountry fire and an announcement that the acting governor had issued an emergency proclamation."


44 posted on 02/01/2024 3:25:56 PM PST by StAnDeliver (TrumpII)
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DAVID KLEPPER, you need to publically apologize and insist that crAP withdraw this article. Today.


45 posted on 02/01/2024 3:28:14 PM PST by StAnDeliver (TrumpII)
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To: mcenedo

Try telling the truth consistently, and uncovering facts to discover the whole story, rather than writing the story in advance, and selectively focusing on those that fit the narrative, and ignoring those that don’t. It may take years, but you destroyed your own credibility in 2016, and it’s now up to you to rebuild it, not up to the public to stupidly believe a bunch of lying mother-f@#$ers just because you’re worried about the consequences of destroying your own credibility.


46 posted on 02/01/2024 3:36:09 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: mcenedo
Perhaps the media should stop participating in conspiracies?
47 posted on 02/01/2024 3:48:28 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear ( In a quaint alleyway, they graciously signaled for a vehicle on the main road to lead the way. )
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To: mcenedo

Who in their right mind believes a 10th of the BS now?


48 posted on 02/01/2024 4:05:58 PM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: mcenedo

The difference between a conspiracy theory and the truth is about 6 months.

L


49 posted on 02/01/2024 4:07:53 PM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: mcenedo

Feminist bolshevism is conspiracy theory, and no one has carried water for feminist bolshevism like the CIA / establishment media right from the start.


50 posted on 02/01/2024 4:28:16 PM PST by ClarityGuy
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To: mcenedo

Hmm AP you should of thought of that before you became habitual liars for the Alt Left political machine

You can only lie so often to people before they stop taking your seriously. AP passed that point some where around 1992


51 posted on 02/01/2024 5:26:44 PM PST by MNJohnnie (Don't blame me, my congressman is MTG!)
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To: webheart

Good catch


52 posted on 02/01/2024 6:40:41 PM PST by Nateman (If the Pedo Profit Mad Moe (pig pee upon him!) was not the Antichrist then he comes in second.)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

What happens?

Don’t know, but the effect is the same as a circular firing squad.


53 posted on 02/02/2024 3:49:25 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: outofsalt

Three conspiracy theorists walk into a bar
You can’t tell me that’s just a coincidence .


54 posted on 02/02/2024 3:59:55 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Responsibility2nd

What happened to “I”?


55 posted on 02/02/2024 4:01:03 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: mcenedo
The AP is only just now realizing that it has lost all credibility, thanks to decades of reporting fake news? And more insidiously, NOT reporting certain other news.

Priceless.

56 posted on 02/02/2024 4:02:48 AM PST by Sirius Lee (Next week on The Bickersons... )
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To: caseinpoint

 



 
Eerily familiar...
 
 

Party ownership of the print media
made it easy to manipulate public opinion,
and the film and radio carried the process further.


 



16. Ministry Of Truth

.......

The Ministry of Truth, Winston's place of work, contained, it was said, three thousand rooms above ground level, and corresponding ramifications below.

The Ministry of Truth concerned itself with Lies. Party ownership of the print media made it easy to manipulate public opinion, and the film and radio carried the process further.

The primary job of the Ministry of Truth was to supply the citizens of Oceania with newspapers, films, textbooks, telescreen programmes, plays, novels - with every conceivable kind of information, instruction, or entertainment, from a statue to a slogan, from a lyric poem to a biological treatise, and from a child's spelling-book to a Newspeak dictionary.

Winston worked in the RECORDS DEPARTMENT (a single branch of the Ministry of Truth) editing and writing for The Times. He dictated into a machine called a speakwrite. Winston would receive articles or news-items which for one reason or another it was thought necessary to alter, or, in Newspeak, rectify. If, for example, the Ministry of Plenty forecast a surplus, and in reality the result was grossly less, Winston's job was to change previous versions so the old version would agree with the new one. This process of continuous alteration was applied not only to newspapers, but to books, periodicals, pamphlets, posters, leaflets, films, sound-tracks, cartoons, photographs - to every kind of literature or documentation which might conceivably hold any political or ideological significance.

When his day's work started, Winston pulled the speakwrite towards him, blew the dust from its mouthpiece, and put on his spectacles. He dialed 'back numbers' on the telescreen and called for the appropriate issues of The Times, which slid out of the pneumatic tube after only a few minutes' delay. The messages he had received referred to articles or news-items which for one reason or another it was thought necessary to rectify.

In the walls of the cubicle there were three orifices. To the right of the speakwrite, a small pneumatic tube for written messages; to the left, a larger one for newspapers; and on the side wall, within easy reach of Winston's arm, a large oblong slit protected by a wire grating. This last was for the disposal of waste paper. Similar slits existed in thousands or tens of thousands throughout the building, not only in every room but at short intervals in every corridor. For some reason they were nicknamed memory holes. When one knew that any document was due for destruction, or even when one saw a scrap of waste paper lying about, it was an automatic action to lift the flap of the nearest memory hole and drop it in, whereupon it would be whirled away on a current of warm air to the enormous furnaces which were hidden somewhere in the recesses of the building.

As soon as Winston had dealt with each of the messages, he clipped his speakwritten corrections to the appropriate copy of The Times and pushed them into the pneumatic tube. Then, with a movement which was as nearly as possible unconscious, he crumpled up the original message and any notes that he himself had made, and dropped them into the memory hole to be devoured by the flames.

What happened in the unseen labyrinth to which the tubes led, he did not know in detail, but he did know in general terms. As soon as all the corrections which happened to be necessary in any particular number of The Times had been assembled and collated, that number would be reprinted, the original copy destroyed, and the corrected copy placed on the files in its stead.

In the cubicle next to him the little woman with sandy hair toiled day in day out, simply at tracking down and deleting from the Press the names of people who had been vaporized and were therefore considered never to have existed. And this hall, with its fifty workers or thereabouts, was only one-sub-section, a single cell, as it were, in the huge complexity of the Records Department. Beyond, above, below, were other swarms of workers engaged in an unimaginable multitude of jobs.

There were huge printing-shops and their sub editors, their typography experts, and their elaborately equipped studios for the faking of photographs. There was the tele-programmes section with its engineers, its producers and its teams of actors specially chosen for their skill in imitating voices; clerks whose job was simply to draw up lists of books and periodicals which were due for recall; vast repositories where the corrected documents were stored; and the hidden furnaces where the original copies were destroyed.

And somewhere or other, quite anonymous, there were the directing brains who co-ordinated the whole effort and laid down the lines of policy which made it necessary that this fragment of the past should be preserved, that one falsified, and the other rubbed out of existence.

 
 


57 posted on 02/02/2024 4:03:56 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: caseinpoint
Then reform education to produce...

Lots of folks want to do this ...

https://youtu.be/VPf6ITsjsgk

58 posted on 02/02/2024 4:07:48 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Revel

Why am I no longer able to stream the movie Gaslight??


59 posted on 02/02/2024 4:08:50 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

For only $19 a month, you can save a child with flies crawling on his face.

The same amount will save a poor puppy from a horrible, short life.


60 posted on 02/02/2024 4:10:30 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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