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Botany

(70,501 posts)
Mon Mar 26, 2018, 01:59 PM Mar 2018

Anybody think that the faked video of Emma Gonzales ripping up the Constitution was made in Russia [View all]

and then sent to the NRA or some right wing media outlet?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2018/03/25/a-fake-photo-of-emma-gonzalez-went-viral-on-the-far-right-where-parkland-teens-are-villains/?utm_term=.d120d3776b80

<Gab, the Twitter-like social network that is a popular refuge for the alt-right, tweeted the animation on Saturday to more than 100,000 followers, then hours later asserted it was “satire.” It racked up more than 1,200 retweets. The still images, looking more sophisticated than the glitchy animation, went further, appearing to be taken as legitimate by some conservative-minded Twitter users.>




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