“PizzaGate” is back, spreading on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and TikTok at levels that rival 2016; popping up in countries like Brazil, Italy and Turkey; and targeting celebs like Oprah, Ellen, Chrissy Teigen and Bill Gates in addition to Hillary Clinton
https://twitter.com/liamstack/status/1276933135062700038?s=20
“PIZZAGATE IS BACK”
This is a really good article.
In the first week of June, comments, likes and shares of PizzaGate also spiked to more than 800,000 on Facebook and nearly 600,000 on Instagram, according to data from CrowdTangle, a Facebook-owned tool for analyzing social interactions. That compares with 512,000 interactions on Facebook and 93,000 on Instagram during the first week of December 2016. From the start of 2017 through January this year, the average number of weekly PizzaGate mentions, likes and shares on Facebook and Instagram was under 20,000, according to The Times’s analysis.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/27/technology/pizzagate-justin-bieber-qanon-tiktok.html
High IQ
Think about how much more efficient and effective rabbit holing is, compared to when we got pilled. It’s exponentially better - and better in multiple ways: quality of evidence, production value, etc.
Now add zoomers.
That’s why this spike will be apocalyptic.
To keep PizzaGate tamped down, the social media companies took other steps. Facebook made it impossible to search for hashtags such as #pizzagateisreal. On YouTube, searching for #pizzagate brought up a label that explained the term was part of a false conspiracy. Twitter also stopped #pizzagate from surfacing in its trending topics in the United States.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/27/technology/pizzagate-justin-bieber-qanon-tiktok.html
notable
zing/zang between Ted Lieu and Richard Grenell re: Russia paying militants to kill US troops.