with the platform promoting topics including “#falseflag” and “staged” to users. X owner Elon Musk has staunchly advocated for “free speech” on social media platforms — which can include misinformation like the above.
This is a kindergarten-level theory of mind failure. This is extremely embarrassing for The Verge.
Nobody knows whether it was staged or false flag. Speculation is not misinformation. Conflating these two reveals this writer doesn’t understand the nature of the mind at the most basic level. They’re assuming the truth is something transparently obvious to all, which is at its heart the root of the totalitarian approach to decision making.
I’m going to disagree with you there. Speculating is misinformation when the audience is too stupid to tell the difference. We’re talking about conservatives here, so I mean…if the speculation is telling them what they want to hear, then they will take it as absolute truth.
We’re talking about leftists here. The #staged and #flaseflag ideas are conspiracy theories that the would-be assassin was actually planted by Trump to boost his campaign. These are theorized by people that don’t like Trump.
i think this is maybe a case of the conversation has moved quickly over the course of two days, and we are talking about different things. It is true, this article is about speculation from tweeters, and we don’t know much about those tweeters from this article, but it does sound like leftist posts from Saturday and Sunday. I think I was commenting from a place of the knowledge we have as of today, which didn’t really apply to what I was replying to. It is true that The Verge’s reporting was maybe irresponsible here
This is a kindergarten-level theory of mind failure. This is extremely embarrassing for The Verge.
Nobody knows whether it was staged or false flag. Speculation is not misinformation. Conflating these two reveals this writer doesn’t understand the nature of the mind at the most basic level. They’re assuming the truth is something transparently obvious to all, which is at its heart the root of the totalitarian approach to decision making.
I’m going to disagree with you there. Speculating is misinformation when the audience is too stupid to tell the difference. We’re talking about conservatives here, so I mean…if the speculation is telling them what they want to hear, then they will take it as absolute truth.
We’re talking about leftists here. The #staged and #flaseflag ideas are conspiracy theories that the would-be assassin was actually planted by Trump to boost his campaign. These are theorized by people that don’t like Trump.
i think this is maybe a case of the conversation has moved quickly over the course of two days, and we are talking about different things. It is true, this article is about speculation from tweeters, and we don’t know much about those tweeters from this article, but it does sound like leftist posts from Saturday and Sunday. I think I was commenting from a place of the knowledge we have as of today, which didn’t really apply to what I was replying to. It is true that The Verge’s reporting was maybe irresponsible here