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The guardian reports on a sobering event in Washington DC.
US police have arrested a man wielding an assault rifle who entered a pizza restaurant that was the target of fake news reports it was operating a child abuse ring led by Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and her top campaign aide.
[...] The suspect entered the restaurant and pointed a gun at a restaurant employee, who fled and notified authorities, police said. The man then discharged the weapon inside the restaurant. There were no injuries.
[...] [Police] said the suspect during an interview with investigators revealed that he came to the establishment to "self-investigate" Pizzagate, the police statement said. Pizzagate is a baseless conspiracy, which falsely claims Clinton and her campaign chief John Podesta were running a child sex ring from the restaurant's backrooms.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by LoRdTAW on Tuesday December 06 2016, @02:04PM
God dammit. I posted instead of previewing.
Anyways, the reason I say electronic warfare is simply because you can rile up people to the point of inciting violence using so-called "fake news". Don't like someone or something? Spread false rumors until someone passionately insane enough gets angry and does your dirty work for you. You get off scot-free because you didn't directly incite violence. You find a story and set it on fire, it may smolder out or it may turn into a fire storm. Just keep pumping this feedback loop until something big like a shooting happens. It's a goal, a bragging right. "We got someone to fire a gun in a pizza joint! LOL!" Whats the next level of Lulz? Arson? Murder? Mass murder? Terrorism? Full blown war?
And I'm wondering if this truly is for teh lulz or if there is an organization behind it. Anonymous, alt-right, 4chan, etc. are all the same people and there is a possibility that they have been infiltrated by agencies, foreign or domestic, to purposefully manipulate people on a massive scale. They don't have to be government either. Yea, yea, sounds like another conspiracy but you can't rule out that possibility.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 06 2016, @02:14PM
Russia's "troll army" [soylentnews.org] has been well documented. They pay those guys scraps. It would be easy for them to throw a couple of people into sites like 4chan just to stir up shit.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 06 2016, @03:22PM
The Yellow Press gave us war with Spain 120 years ago.
(Score: 3, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday December 06 2016, @03:24PM
Anyways, the reason I say electronic warfare is simply because you can rile up people to the point of inciting violence using so-called "fake news".
Yeah, like the fake Planned Parenthood videos from about a year ago. 3 people are dead over that one.