Gang,
I am stumped, and hope someone here can address this. I'm honestly not casting any aspersions... I just want to figure out the process through which some questionable stuff, knowingly created, finds its way here.
How do two seemingly-long-time board members post with the exact same image, conveying the exact same (already addressed & answered) misconception, at the exact same time here?
https://greatawakening.win/p/12hRj5WYyt/the-state-of-the-state-of-the-un/ https://greatawakening.win/p/12hRj5WI44/holy-shirt-boys-and-girls--i-tho/c/
Questions get asked, and answered, and re-asked, and re-answered here all the time. It's a little tiresome, and could definitely be largely remedied by an improved Search function that did more than just search New Post titles, but it is what it is. And, upon searching the Internet for "why is joe biden's state of the union speech listed as unofficial", I've discovered that this answer isn't readily available to the casual searcher. So I have no problem with this underlying question. So much weird stuff in DC, and it's great when we can collective answer some of it. ?
My real questions are:
- How would two different people end up with same image, and the same misconception, and be compelled to post it at the same time?
- What's the source of this stuff? Is there some mailing list, twitter feed, Telegramph thingy that folks belong to, which knowingly pumps this out and that well-meaning folks then breathlessly bring here?
If there is an external source that is creating material (yes, it's just a screenshot with "Unofficial" highlighted, but it logically had to have been created by someone other than the two posters) to spread distracting disinfo... that's really not a trustworthy source to be following.
This certainly isn't the first time I've seen this phenomenon, of disinfo-perpetuating images showing up hear near-simultaneously. It's just the first time I've bothered to ask. (And yes, I directly asked the two OPs where this image came from... I just haven't heard back from either yet. And neither cited the source of the marked-up screenshot image in their posts.)
Hey, no disagreement with any of that.
I don't believe I made any suggestions of malign motives, nor of any intentional wrongdoings. And yes, everyone makes craps posts from time to time... mine are certainly on the record! ?
But I just often wondered why so many people, in waves, frequently have similar misconceptions at the same time.
And then my curiosity was piqued when I saw one post, which appeared to be a screenshot that the original poster has marked up himself... and then saw an identical one. Hmmm... ?
And nobody here could have a problem with that question being asked, and then answered.
Oh no offense taken. I guess I was just answering the part of your post that I have experience on. A lot of people are following disinformation sources closely on telegram or conspiracies.win or wherever. Kind of the same thing. A new thing pops up and they get excited to share. It will probably always be a problem as long as these types of accounts exist, I guess. But then again... I guess we don’t really know which accounts are the disinformation accounts (though some of them seem pretty obvious and yet are still taken seriously.). I’m pretty much rambling at this point.
I know I’m over it pretty quickly when somebody posts something and it’s debunked and then 20 minutes later someone posts the same thing. And then an hour later. And then the next day....
Yep.
I’ve been long curious why, and how, this is.
And it’d be really strange if I was the only one to have wondered this.
It appears I/we’ve finally got the answer.