{"id":32500,"date":"2018-05-20T13:05:48","date_gmt":"2018-05-20T20:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=32500"},"modified":"2018-05-20T13:05:48","modified_gmt":"2018-05-20T20:05:48","slug":"facebook-fakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/20\/facebook-fakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Fakes"},"content":{"rendered":"

It now appears that the Santa Fe shooter, Dimitrios Pagourtzis, was not politically motivated.  The most likely explanation to date, is that he was stalking a girl with all the zeal of Republican Judge Roy Moore after a twelve year old.  After months of refusing to date him and enduring aggressive advances from him, she confronted him him and humiliated him by rejecting him publically.  She was the first student killed.  Republicans are putting up fake Facebook profiles in his name, painting him as a Democrat.<\/font><\/p>\n

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In the first hours after the Texas school shooting that left at least ten dead Friday, online hoaxers moved quickly to spread a viral lie, creating fake Facebook accounts with the suspected shooter’s name and a doctored photo showing him wearing a "Hillary 2016" hat<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Several were swiftly flagged by users and deleted by the social network. But others rose rapidly in their place: Chris Sampson, a disinformation analyst for a counter-terrorism think tank, said he could see new fakes as they were being created and filled out with false information, including images linking the suspect to the liberal group Antifa<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

It has become a familiar pattern in the all-too-common aftermath of American school shootings: A barrage of online misinformation, seemingly designed to cloud the truth or win political points.<\/p>\n

But some social-media watchers said they were still surprised at the speed with which the Santa Fe shooting descended into information warfare. Sampson said he watched the clock after the suspect was first named by police to see how long it would take for a fake Facebook account to be created in his name: less than 20 minutes<\/strong>… [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Republicans are desperate to create an appearance of false equivalence to marginalize the many Republican terrorists that have murdered innocents.<\/font><\/p>\n

With Facebook, the only way to win is not to play!<\/font><\/h4>\n

RESIST THE REPUBLICAN REICH!!<\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It now appears that the Santa Fe shooter, Dimitrios Pagourtzis, was not politically motivated.  The most likely explanation to date, is that he was stalking a girl with all the zeal of Republican Judge Roy Moore after a twelve year old.  After months of refusing to date him and enduring aggressive advances from him, she […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}