true story...
one day i see a flood of posts about
"How anti-vaccine people believe this fake news story entitled FBI RAIDS CDC"
so i start looking at this story, and it looks somewhat legit, as far as linking to sources, etc...
so then I'm at a pro-vaccine blog, and it links to its "sources"...
i click on the link, to see where it takes me...
and what i discovered was, that it was basically it was set up like this,
blog A cites blog B,
blog B cites blog C,
blog C cites blog D,
...
blog X cites blog Y,
blog Y cites blog Z,
blog Z cites blog A...
it was this long, elaborate circle jerk of circular logic...
so when i dug even deeper, to see where this story actually originated,
i discovered it was written by Sorcha Faal, who was already well-known to me as producer of fake news...
but it got me wondering, what was Sorcha Faal's motive for producing this fake story?
the motive, as far as i could tell, was to give something for the pro-vaccine blogs to "debunk",
while also causing a massive forum slide for anything related to the CDC...
http://google.com/search?q=FBI+RAIDS+CDC
http://google.com/search?q=FBI+RAIDS+CDC+Sorcha+Faal
http://google.com/search?q=Sorcha+Faal
http://news.google.com/search?q=FBI+RAIDS+CDC
HA! i was clicking my own links in my OP, to verify they work, and i came across this article.
SAME PLAYBOOK!
How rightwing conspiracy theorists attacked Christine Blasey Ford's testimony
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/05/christine-blasey-ford-rightwing-conspiracy-theorists-burst-your-bubble
https://archive.is/VRDyK