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   Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Jun-2025 23:11:53 JST Nonilex

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   The #disinformation also added to the confusion over what exactly was happening on the streets, which was portrayed in digital & #SocialMedia [& #RightWing *news* #media] through starkly divergent #ideological lenses. Many posts created the false impression that the entire city was engulfed in violence, when the few clashes were limited to only very small parts.

   #MediaLiteracy #moderation #TrumpLies #Trump #propaganda #LosAngeles #LAprotests #immigration #protests

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     Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Jun-2025 23:11:55 JST Nonilex

     #Disinformation Campaign of #Fake Images & #ConspiracyTheories On #SocialMedia Stoke #RightWing #Rage Around #LAProtests

     Misleading photos, videos & texts have spread widely on social #media as #protests against #immigration #raids unfolded in #LosAngeles, rehashing old conspiracy theories‘ to support #Trump’s actions.

     The flood of falsehoods appears intended to stoke outrage toward #immigrants & #Democrats.

     #MediaLiteracy #moderation #TrumpLies #propaganda #Resist
     https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/technology/la-protests-conspiracy-theories-disinformation.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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     Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Jun-2025 00:32:39 JST Nonilex

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     An innocuous photograph of a pallet of #bricks, actually posted on the website of a building materials wholesaler in Malaysia, was cited as proof that the protests were organized by nonprofit organizations supported by #GeorgeSoros, the financier who, to the feverishly conspiratorial #RightWing, has become a mastermind of global disorder.

     #MediaLiteracy #SocialMedia #moderation #Trump #TrumpLies #ConspiracyTheories #propaganda #disinformation #LosAngeles #LAprotests #immigration #protests

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     Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Jun-2025 00:32:40 JST Nonilex

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     #JamesWoods, the actor who has become known for spreading #ConspiracyTheories, used his account on X to rail against the #state’s elected ofcls, especially #Governor #Newsom, a Democrat. He also reposted a fabricated quote, attributed to President Barack #Obama, discussing a secret plot to impose socialism on the country, as well as a video of burning police cars that was from 2020.

     #MediaLiteracy #SocialMedia #moderation #Trump #TrumpLies #propaganda #disinformation #LosAngeles #protests

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     Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Jun-2025 00:32:41 JST Nonilex

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     Darren L. Linvill, a researcher at Clemson University’s #Media Forensics Hub, said *#conservatives* online were “building up the riots in a performative way” to help bolster #Trump’s claims that #LosAngeles had been taken over by “violent, insurrectionist mobs.”

     Linvill said the posts were also “a bit self-fulfilling.” “As they direct attention to it,” he said, “more #protesters will show up.”

     #MediaLiteracy #SocialMedia #moderation #TrumpLies #propaganda #disinformation #immigration #protests

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     Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Jun-2025 00:32:42 JST Nonilex

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     The latest deployments prompted a new wave of misleading images to spread—some purporting to show #Marines & the #military service’s weapons in action. One was a still from “Blue Thunder,” a 1983 action-thriller about a conspiracy to deprive residents of #LosAngeles of their civil rights. It features a climatic dogfight over the city’s downtown.

     #MediaLiteracy #SocialMedia #moderation #Trump #TrumpLies #ConspiracyTheories #propaganda #disinformation #LAprotests #immigration #protests

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     Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Jun-2025 00:32:43 JST Nonilex

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     The confrontation escalated on Monday as new #protests occurred & #Defense Secy #PeteHegseth announced—on X—that he was mobilizing 700 #Marines from a base near #LosAngeles to guard federal bldgs. They are expected to join 2k members of the #California #NationalGuard whom #Trump ordered deployed without the authorization of the #state’s #governor, #GavinNewsom, who normally [legally] has command of the #troops.

     #MediaLiteracy #SocialMedia #moderation #propaganda #disinformation #LAprotests

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     Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Jun-2025 00:32:44 JST Nonilex

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     There were numerous scenes of protesters throwing rocks or other objects at law enforcement officers & setting cars ablaze, including a number of self-driving #Waymo taxis. At the same time, false images spread to revive old #ConspiracyTheories that the #protests were a planned provocation, not a spontaneous response to the #immigration raids.

     #MediaLiteracy #SocialMedia #moderation #TrumpLies #Trump #propaganda #disinformation #LosAngeles #LAprotests #immigration #protests