Looks like I'm taking over Joan Donovans job as a professor of disinformation research
Today we have another case study
https://old.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1nir57q/13_people_hurt_in_2_mass_shootings_at_minneapolis/There were two mass shootings in Minneapolis yesterday, both at the fentanyl zombie vortex. Just the normal druggie on druggie crime, with know perpetrators 'related to narcotics'. We see it all the time, and these two shootings may or may not have been linked
But reddit has been so desperate for something to bothsides the Charlie Kirk story, we have 700 comments somehow trying to spin this as a 'revenge attack' and right wing violence, that Brian Kilmeade inspired an attack on the homeless. Utterly brainless
The whole comment chain is true distillate of what disinformation in a cycle of political violence looks like. If you actually studied this to care about human group psychology instead of being a hack only interested in exploitative tribal point scoring, there are interesting parallels between this kind of online chatter and what we see in race/religion riots in India, Pakistan, Africa, etc. Someone alleging a Christian drank from a Muslim's well could spiral into assassinations because people reinforce each other's preconceptions.
What do the shootings in Minneapolis have to do with Charlie Kirk? Nothing. Unless you count how he railed against the liberal policies to be tolerant of drug zombies taking over swathes of cities and killing themselves and each other. But now it somehow melds together like The Fly's body horror thanks to the miracle of an uncontrolled hose of disinformation spraying on social media,
bolstered by the same 'disinformation experts' the left employs.