WOA WAIT A SEC…how did this van magically grow w/s wipers?
Baker did this hit notables this round?
The FBI’s arrest of a suspect Friday in the investigation into the package bombs that were sent to 13 prominent Democrats who are regular targets of President Trump this week did little to quell the baseless conspiracy theories spreading among the far right.
That some of the conservative establishment had been willing to assert, without evidence, that the bomb threats were a “false flag” ploy by Democrats was a troubling reminder of how deeply the practice of politically motivated conspiracy mongering and hoax spreading has seeped into the country’s DNA.
And that these theories persisted Friday, even after a suspect had been detained, was a reminder that for those who spread doubt and misleading information, for whatever ends — confusion, attention or other types of political or personal gain — any piece of evidence offered up by authorities can quickly be turned on its head, no matter how credible.
In this case, those on Internet message boards began to twist such disparate facts as photographs of what is believed to be suspect Cesar Sayoc’s van, which was plastered with pro-Trump and anti-Democrat stickers, the spelling of his name, whose letters could be rearranged to spell another word that some posters claimed they thought was suspicious, and other more typical conspiracy theory-minded fare that is now a regular facet of those boards.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/10/26/false-flag-hoaxes-about-bombing-suspect-persist-despite-evidence-trump-shrine-wheels/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.d7368bc9e9d9