the Adams administration lied and the media ran with it
the NYPD now admits there was no “wife of a terrorist” at the Columbia protests after the Mayor used this as cover to assault student protesters last night
I feel like we're at a point in human history where we have to just saturate every form of media with insane bullshit just to get people to not believe in ANYTHING they hear and just give up on the internet and news entirely.
We need a few generations to just chill tf out.
I don't even understand how you get from A to B there. Statistically someone there was related to a terrorist, someone was related to an astronaut, and someone was related to a congress person. Why does that mean cops get to beat people?
welcome to the disinformation age. big social media and regular media are all controlled by rich right wingers. Lies are ok, because damage is done and media barely mentions corrections, because the truth has a liberal bias. And media has to both sides everything now.
This seems to be standard playbook over the last few years of disinformation campaigns. The people who do these are getting slicker and smarter about riling their audience up, and then when the fact checking happens they ignore it or bury the correction so the audience never sees it.
Imagine committing to lies to justify authoritarianism and all you can come up with is “wife of a terrorist.” Like it’s some algorithm-produced novel on display at Barnes and Noble
Also, since when is it illegal to be married to a person who did criminal things? I thought we didn't do guilt by association here. Even if this person were at the protests, how would that justify anything?