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Offline Omni

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Re: Conspiracy Culture
« Reply #30 on: August 28, 2018, 06:41:24 pm »
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/secret-message-board-drives-pizzagate-style-harassment-campaign-small-businesses-n903696

Message Board sends people to harass businesses.

This stuff would be laughable but of course it's actually quite scary, because people actually believe it. On a personal level I have an acquaintance who showed up among our littel group for a beer at the local one afternoon not long after the Orlando gay bar shooting suggesting it was all "fake news" because he didn't see any pictures of dead bodies. I thought he was laughing at the conspiracy theorists who were saying same, then I realized he was actually serious. I presented a couple of reality checks at him (49 names in every newspaper across the country, a quote in print from the Orlando chief of police, pictures of body bags being removed from the building) and non made a dent in his iron clad paranoia. It sent shivers down my spine that someone could be that easily led.