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[–] Drunkenmoba 0 points 11 points 11 points (+11|-0) ago
Yesterday when everyone wasn't paying attention it managed to trend. Today once the full shills were in effect it stopped trending, the hillary double story made trending as part of tying the conspiracy theory and /r/politics dropped all articles of the event and promoted all the ones of her campaign story.
Following how the well oiled PR machine went into effect at the start of business today was rather amazing. Being able to take a step back and just watch it happen was somehow beautiful and terrifying all at once.
[–] trentlapinski 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
I was watching in real-time how they shifted the narrative from heat stroke to pneumonia to straight up censoring the video. Now the media stream media will only show a still screenshot or a clip cutting off the part where she collapsed.
I saw this happen with the Pulse attack in Orlando as well. Within 24-hours they scrubbed the Internet of any videos or photos from the scene and instead shifted the focus on how the attacker might be homosexual.
We've reached a major tipping point in 2016 in the medias capabilities to censor the Internet in real-time. Unfortunately Reddit, Twitter, and Facebook are all complicit in major media coverups now. Even Voat is subjected to CTR and paid shills.
[–] Drunkenmoba 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Fortunately here we have the ability to identify and call out. I honestly won't skip a beat if they go next level here by hunting down which office they are working out of and mailing them a card with their names and a picture of a goat. It actually worked really well for 4chan to identify them.
[–] un1ty ago
What if... What if the military has been plugging all this data into a supercomputer that was running game theory/real time simulation of events and the computer finally pulled some sort of SKYNET and sort of became sentient? At least, sentient enough to know where to 'hide' data of its own 'consciousness' out in the live web and it is controlling everything unbeknownst to the majority of us?
I swear this was the plot of a movie or show... But, hidden in plain sight and all that.
[–] blackguard19 1 point -1 points 0 points (+0|-1) ago
The Pulse attack in Orlando was a sloppy hoax.