Thank you, mainstream media, for showing how complicit and willing you are to shill any view given by those in power.
Journalism is dead and has been for decades, sadly.
They feared satire would be dead, but the onion has been killing it
The screenshotted tweet was wrong, mainstream media was correct.
Who’s that?
This was too stupid to be true, yet they ran with it. The MSM is dying, from self-inflicted wounds.
Pretty sure false headlines like this actually increase engagement, and the retraction increases engagement again. They are optimally playing the capitalism game, not dying.
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Publish BS that one side of the political aisle wants to hear & they eat it up.
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Publish article calling out the first story’s BS, and get those on the other side of the political aisle eating it up.
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Profit!
EDIT: fixed “aisle” thanks to @imsufferableninja@sh.itjust.works. I know that’s the correct word, but I dunno why I didn’t think of it when writing this initially. I think my brain’s slowly turning to mush as I age.
sigh
Aisle
Great strategy for when consequences are none
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Agreed. We’ve turned into the headline mattering more than the content.
Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, Lemmy, etc., there’s comments everywhere “did you even read the article?” We’re looking for the fastest confirmation bias and it’s easy when it’s the title.
Fox News and OAN will run with the transgender headline and be quiet at the redaction, the damage is done.
What people are slow to realize is how well the Trump administration is playing this game. The headlines about Trump suing over the 2020 election is all they wanted, people tend to give validity to something that’s at the courts, regardless of the verdict.
Would like more confirmation on this than a picture of a tweet saying so.
Its very much still up, now just framed in a “maybe do your own research before believing us” kinda way lmao
Early Bulletin Said Ammunition in Kirk Shooting Engraved With Transgender, Antifascist Ideology; Some Sources Urge Caution
Thank you! That’s hardly a retraction, innit?
Transgender ideology?
“You should install linux”
“I use Arch btw”
I wish this hurtful stereotype would stop: most have transitioned to NixOS. Please don’t deadsystem. :p
Oh shit, new black metal band name just dropped
A vegan makes an appearance.
The killshot casing said “*notices bulge* OWO what’s this?” or something very very close, so I think that’s what they were going off of.
Damage is done. MAGA idiots will run with this regardless. Look at the anti-vaxx crowd as examples
and all retractions and corrections will be touted as cover ups. The damage is done, innocents will be attacked over it.
Lol they will never see the retractions. I’m sure my more conservative friends will bring this up as of its gospel years after.
One of them recently referred to the Trump shooter as a blue haired lefty extremist.
Release the Epstein files.
Rumour has it the Epstein files are scrawled with transgender ideology, only one way to know for true.
Well pedo-prez is certainly enjoying a break from this right now. Once again, and for the last time, Charlie has been his useful idiot.
Conservatives are incapable of being shamed. They elected a pedophile and convicted felon who put together the least qualified government in history, and cheered when a South African Nazi threw out Nazi salutes behind the podium of the president. If none of that could make them feel ashamed, then falsely blaming the shooting on their current greatest enemy, trans people, has no chance.
Honestly, if there’s gonna be engravings on bullet cases, I’d leave just three words: Change My Mind.
Rearrange My Brain
Conservatives have no shame. That’s why the U.S is where it is.
I heard he said “Hilary Clinton sends her regards purple monkey dishwasher” right before he opened fire.
Regressives feel no shame. People without empathy don’t feel shame. They do promote and support hate.
If they can make up shit then I can as well. The shooter was definitely a hardcore maga supporter. TRN obviously stands for Trump National Republic or something idk
WJS, is that the same newspaper that reported the 40 beheaded babies in Israel then retracted it?
Like they’d ever apologize. “Well this is what libs do anyway…”
