Post AuzT7XtdvuvMjJS3Lk by Nonilex@masto.ai
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(DIR) Post #AuzPJ1WZiZNbzJsZWK by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-10T14:01:20Z
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#Disinformation Campaign of #Fake Images & #ConspiracyTheories On #SocialMedia Stoke #RightWing #Rage Around #LAProtestsMisleading photos, videos & texts have spread widely on social #media as #protests against #immigration #raids unfolded in #LosAngeles, rehashing old conspiracy theories‘ to support #Trump’s actions.The flood of falsehoods appears intended to stoke outrage toward #immigrants & #Democrats.#MediaLiteracy #moderation #TrumpLies #propaganda #Resist https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/technology/la-protests-conspiracy-theories-disinformation.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
(DIR) Post #AuzPkvUFl5STN6695M by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-10T14:06:23Z
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The #disinformation also added to the confusion over what exactly was happening on the streets, which was portrayed in digital & #SocialMedia [& #RightWing *news* #media] through starkly divergent #ideological lenses. Many posts created the false impression that the entire city was engulfed in violence, when the few clashes were limited to only very small parts.#MediaLiteracy #moderation #TrumpLies #Trump #propaganda #LosAngeles #LAprotests #immigration #protests
(DIR) Post #AuzPsuJjzUAa3pzEvI by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-10T14:07:49Z
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There were numerous scenes of protesters throwing rocks or other objects at law enforcement officers & setting cars ablaze, including a number of self-driving #Waymo taxis. At the same time, false images spread to revive old #ConspiracyTheories that the #protests were a planned provocation, not a spontaneous response to the #immigration raids.#MediaLiteracy #SocialMedia #moderation #TrumpLies #Trump #propaganda #disinformation #LosAngeles #LAprotests #immigration #protests
(DIR) Post #AuzQ05XceugWtku6qG by michaelbrien@mstdn.social
2025-06-10T14:09:04Z
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@Nonilex Hoping this simmers down quickly before we get another Kyle Rittenhouse situation.
(DIR) Post #AuzQI22aPeBTFnwXUO by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-10T14:12:20Z
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The confrontation escalated on Monday as new #protests occurred & #Defense Secy #PeteHegseth announced—on X—that he was mobilizing 700 #Marines from a base near #LosAngeles to guard federal bldgs. They are expected to join 2k members of the #California #NationalGuard whom #Trump ordered deployed without the authorization of the #state’s #governor, #GavinNewsom, who normally [legally] has command of the #troops.#MediaLiteracy #SocialMedia #moderation #propaganda #disinformation #LAprotests
(DIR) Post #AuzQS70kmt59Z6tOu8 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-10T14:14:11Z
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The latest deployments prompted a new wave of misleading images to spread—some purporting to show #Marines & the #military service’s weapons in action. One was a still from “Blue Thunder,” a 1983 action-thriller about a conspiracy to deprive residents of #LosAngeles of their civil rights. It features a climatic dogfight over the city’s downtown.#MediaLiteracy #SocialMedia #moderation #Trump #TrumpLies #ConspiracyTheories #propaganda #disinformation #LAprotests #immigration #protests
(DIR) Post #AuzQfJNO7rEFgBm1ke by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-10T14:16:35Z
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Darren L. Linvill, a researcher at Clemson University’s #Media Forensics Hub, said *#conservatives* online were “building up the riots in a performative way” to help bolster #Trump’s claims that #LosAngeles had been taken over by “violent, insurrectionist mobs.”Linvill said the posts were also “a bit self-fulfilling.” “As they direct attention to it,” he said, “more #protesters will show up.”#MediaLiteracy #SocialMedia #moderation #TrumpLies #propaganda #disinformation #immigration #protests
(DIR) Post #AuzQsa2xSMtn99XpfU by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-10T14:18:58Z
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#JamesWoods, the actor who has become known for spreading #ConspiracyTheories, used his account on X to rail against the #state’s elected ofcls, especially #Governor #Newsom, a Democrat. He also reposted a fabricated quote, attributed to President Barack #Obama, discussing a secret plot to impose socialism on the country, as well as a video of burning police cars that was from 2020.#MediaLiteracy #SocialMedia #moderation #Trump #TrumpLies #propaganda #disinformation #LosAngeles #protests
(DIR) Post #AuzQyihWC38HizRae8 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-10T14:20:04Z
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An innocuous photograph of a pallet of #bricks, actually posted on the website of a building materials wholesaler in Malaysia, was cited as proof that the protests were organized by nonprofit organizations supported by #GeorgeSoros, the financier who, to the feverishly conspiratorial #RightWing, has become a mastermind of global disorder.#MediaLiteracy #SocialMedia #moderation #Trump #TrumpLies #ConspiracyTheories #propaganda #disinformation #LosAngeles #LAprotests #immigration #protests
(DIR) Post #AuzR4zltdcluPDU4ye by zombiewarrior@techhub.social
2025-06-10T14:21:10Z
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@Nonilex im sorry to correct you but blue thunder was about a cool helicopter
(DIR) Post #AuzRIe3BC5H75o4pN2 by Beachbum@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-06-10T14:23:14Z
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@Nonilex He’s a fascist and has been for years. I never watch his movies because of royalties he would get.
(DIR) Post #AuzRoePROVwLTNkcW8 by Crowjane@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-06-10T14:29:23Z
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@Nonilex The same shit was pulled in 2020 after George Floyd was killed. Photos of bricks on pallets at construction sites were spread around social media as proof that the protestors had planned it all and were going to pummel police with bricks.
(DIR) Post #AuzS0tTxBDXBhAhRQW by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-10T14:31:33Z
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X posted a *Community Note* pointing out that the photo had nothing to do w/the #protests, but it still was seen >800k times. It was also widely reposted, including by several seemingly inauthentic accounts in Chinese.
(DIR) Post #AuzS3FTIOXl6TPVyfg by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-10T14:32:06Z
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“These days, it feels like every time there’s a protest, the old clickbaity ‘pallets of bricks’ hoax shows up right on cue,” #SocialMedia Lab, a research center at the Toronto Metropolitan University, wrote on Bluesky. “You know the one, photos or videos of #bricks supposedly left out to encourage rioting. It’s catnip for #RightWing agitators & grifters.”#MediaLiteracy #moderation #Trump #TrumpLies #ConspiracyTheories #propaganda #disinformation #LosAngeles #LAprotests #immigration #protests
(DIR) Post #AuzSIb4kLzmdoxLoZs by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-10T14:34:49Z
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It also fits into the narrative that #protests against government policies are somehow inauthentic. On his own platform, Truth Social, #Trump also suggested that the protesters were “Paid Insurrectionists!”Numerous posts echoed unsubstantiated claims that the protests were the work of #GeorgeSoros as well as local #NGOs or #Democratic elected officials, including the #mayor of #LosAngeles, #KarenBass.#SocialMedia #moderation #TrumpLies #propaganda #disinformation #LAprotests
(DIR) Post #AuzSXIlSiSFhNFLI8W by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-10T14:37:32Z
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Some posts disparaging the #protests were shared by accounts w/deceptive handles that closely resembled those of ofcl govt sources or news orgs.#MikeBenz, a #conspiracy-minded #influencer on X who last year claimed that the #Pentagon used the pop star #TaylorSwift as part of a psyop to undercut #Trump, advanced an outlandish theory that the mayor had links to the #CIA & had helped start riots in the city where she lives.#SocialMedia #moderation #ConspiracyTheories #propaganda #disinformation
(DIR) Post #AuzSj69rPd7FkbNb9c by ewos1986@norden.social
2025-06-10T14:39:31Z
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@Nonilex immer die selbe Scheiße. Excuse my French.
(DIR) Post #AuzSlEkcR2x2ypaom8 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-10T14:40:03Z
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He based that simply on Mayor Bass’s role as a board member for the National Endowment for Democracy, the congressionally mandated org formed during the Reagan admin to promote #democratic governance around the world.Not surprisingly, perhaps, the theme was echoed by accounts across #SocialMedia linked to #Russia, which often amplifies content that discredits the #UnitedStates.#MediaLiteracy #moderation #Trump #propaganda #disinformation #LosAngeles #LAprotests #immigration #protests
(DIR) Post #AuzT0W1iUEJou5sLOy by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-10T14:42:36Z
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#Russia & its supporters have long accused #GeorgeSoros or the US govt of covertly sponsoring “color revolutions” to overthrow govts—from the Arab Spring countries swept up by mass street #protests in 2011 to #Ukraine.“It is nationwide conspiracy of liberals against not only #Trump but against American people in general,” #AleksandrDugin, a prominent nationalist in Russia, posted.#MediaLiteracy #SocialMedia #moderation #TrumpLies #ConspiracyTheories #propaganda #disinformation #LosAngeles
(DIR) Post #AuzT7XtdvuvMjJS3Lk by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-10T14:44:04Z
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#Disinformation in situations like these spreads so quickly & widely that efforts to verify #facts cannot keep up, said Nora Benavidez, senior counsel at Free Press, an advocacy organization that studies the intersection of #media, #technology & the #law. She described it as part of “a much longer effort to delegitimize #peaceful #resistance movements.”#MediaLiteracy #SocialMedia #moderation #Trump #TrumpLies #ConspiracyTheories #propaganda #LosAngeles #LAprotests #immigration #protests
(DIR) Post #AuzTDynkoWIBualU48 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-10T14:45:14Z
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“#InformationWarfare is always a symptom of conflict, stoked often by those in #power to fuel their own #illiberal goals,” she said. “It confuses audiences, scares people who might otherwise have empathy for the cause & divides us when we need #solidarity most.”#MediaLiteracy #SocialMedia #moderation #Trump #TrumpLies #ConspiracyTheories #propaganda #disinformation #LosAngeles #LAprotests #immigration #protests
(DIR) Post #AuzTTEcoGTdPKav6LQ by PedestrianError@towns.gay
2025-06-10T14:47:58Z
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@Nonilex Suburban, car-centered life really renders people unable to think for themselves. This kind of propaganda works because people are terribly sheltered, siloed, and segregated and don't know what it's like to live in an actual community.
(DIR) Post #AuzTuXI6yM1r2fFyd6 by bebadefabo@mastodon.social
2025-06-10T14:52:54Z
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@Nonilex there's a common thread to a lot of the garage here: "posted on X" Twitter is a shit hole.
(DIR) Post #AuzWApt3nhmfG3RIo4 by kaliagainstallodds@mastodon.social
2025-06-10T15:18:07Z
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@Nonilex thank you for sharing stuff like this.
(DIR) Post #AuzWAyzPxRDVUNU0Su by ChrisHolladay@mastodon.social
2025-06-10T15:18:07Z
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@Nonilex James can eat shit
(DIR) Post #AuzWVjhA18KG8Rq6Bk by rmblaber1956@mastodon.social
2025-06-10T15:22:01Z
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@Nonilex Why George Soros? The fact that he's Jewish, as well as very wealthy & liberal, has nothing to do with it, I suppose?
(DIR) Post #AuzYJrFuHXHY16YUt6 by lumiworx@mastodon.social
2025-06-10T15:41:42Z
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@Nonilex ... it took me under a minute to find the image source, so if you need receipts...https://buildingmaterials.com.my/storage/photo/3/4420/large.jpg
(DIR) Post #AuzZacwGrdYwUWvmLo by snarkweek@mstdn.social
2025-06-10T15:56:32Z
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@Nonilex "Instead of a roof over their heads, this billionaire is giving them bricks to throw at the police."Let's also observe that while factually untrue, this is in essence still quite truthful.
(DIR) Post #AuzZufAOI6pdBz5anA by snarkweek@mstdn.social
2025-06-10T16:00:09Z
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@Nonilex "Instead of a roof over their heads, this billionaire is giving them bricks to throw at the police."Let's also observe that while factually untrue, this the essence of their policies.
(DIR) Post #AuzirgRC0ZgZqwbOvQ by privacy_guru@mastodon.social
2025-06-10T17:39:56Z
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@Nonilex I'm so tired of seeing fake news. And it's not CNN, BBC, or Sky News doing it. It's the right wing.
(DIR) Post #AvDC1YqZu31Mkgk22C by hahame@mastodon.social
2025-06-17T05:37:50Z
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@Nonilex 无论怎样，新闻媒体的控制权都不能让总统和政府获得。特别是信息化和人工智能化时代，社交媒体和新闻对政治局势的影响已经到了能很大影响局势的地步，应该把这个纳入三权分立，特朗普掌握了很多权力，最大的一个就是他控制了很多社交媒体。如何你研究中国就会发现，中国政府是如何通过控制中国内所有新闻媒体平台来实现彻底的政治宣传和反对者打压的。如果美国还想要民主，就要立法限制掌权者的媒体掌控权，你们现在要做的不是乱七八糟的事情，是去支持特朗普或被他控制的社交媒体总部抗议才对，那里是他话语权和洗脑能量的工厂。
(DIR) Post #AvDCTptM7lqRiwWVF2 by hahame@mastodon.social
2025-06-17T05:43:30Z
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@Nonilex 特朗普玩的这一套政治战术在中国早就被玩烂了，你们去看看中国是怎么搞这套的就知道了。我只能告诉你们，获胜的要点在重新夺回主流社交媒体的公民立场，通过社交平台系统性打击政治宣传ai和拿工资的评论员，重新让所有人都在一个中立的地方自由发声才可能胜利。特朗普他一切都命根子就在社交媒体了，你们可以留意他这些年对社交媒体做了哪些政治行动。在中国没这个机会了，但是在美国，你们有希望夺回属于你们的社交媒体，不要在被独裁者控制的社交媒体上发言，因为他们的水军和AI会反击你，你们要做的是像x这样的社交媒体总部抗议，你们第一个要夺回来的是；你们的舆论权！不然无论你们如何抗议，特朗普都会用他的说辞把你们说成暴徒、坏人、既得利益者。致命关节在社交媒体平台的现实总部！
(DIR) Post #AvShWEnH9xcCrHWfvU by Npars01@mstdn.social
2025-06-24T17:11:55Z
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@Nonilex Yet another disinformation campaign funded by the same billionaires behind Project 2025.https://www.desmog.com/2024/08/15/revealed-shell-oil-non-profit-donated-to-anti-climate-groups-behind-project-2025/https://www.desmog.com/2024/10/25/project-2025-trump-mapped-how-6-billionaire-family-fortunes-fund-climate-denial/https://www.salon.com/2024/08/12/4-decisions-that-have-quietly-jumpstarted-project-2025/Bradley, Koch, Coors, Scaife Mellon, Seid and Uihlein have honed their talents ... climate denial, covid denial, election denial, reality denialhttps://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/08/09/the-big-money-behind-the-big-liehttps://jacobin.com/2021/12/right-wing-think-tanks-herd-immunity-deathhttps://bylinetimes.com/2020/10/09/climate-science-denial-network-behind-great-barrington-declaration/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/15/opinion/jan6-companies-donate.htmlhttps://theintercept.com/2021/08/07/election-fraud-bradley-impact-fund-donors/https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/08/elon-musk-hurricane-disinformation-trump-00182769https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/09/arizona-republicans-elections-denial-big-lie/
(DIR) Post #AvZAT2N0xO0l4spPZQ by indyradio@kafeneio.social
2025-06-27T20:04:38Z
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@Nonilex too much NYT is not a good think, though yes