The same things happen when news agencies or celebrities tweet out something completely false (or criminal, when celebrities help incite violence to support their causes). Oftentimes someone will take a screenshot to preserve evidence and post it after the tweet has been deleted, but unless they have the URL of the original tweet which can be retrieved from the archive, a screenshot’s authenticity is called into question. Was it actually a screenshot, or did someone fake the screenshot using Photoshop or one of the fake tweet generating websites?
An MSNBC terrorism analyst once appeared to encourage ISIS to bomb Trump Tower in Turkey in a tweet that was later deleted.216 Actor Patton Oswald once tweeted encouragement for terrorists to bomb one of Trump’s properties and later deleted it.217 New York Times columnist Ross Douthat actually tweeted his hopes for a Trump assassination,218 as did London Guardian reporter Monisha Rajesh,219 with both later deleting the tweets after the backlash. Oftentimes once someone deletes such inciting tweets they and their fans insinuate that screenshots are fake, casting doubt on whether or not they had actually posted such statements at all. It’s as if the truth has vanished down a memory hole.
An eerie ‘memory hole’ situation occurred in 2010 when an episode of Jesse Ventura’s Conspiracy Theory television show was remotely deleted from people’s DVRs after they had recorded it. The show ran for three seasons on TruTV and followed Jesse Ventura around the country investigating various conspiracy theories, and one of those episodes was about ‘FEMA camps,’ the secretive detention centers that have been set up in major cities across America in order to detain large numbers of people in the event of massive civil unrest which may be sparked from any number of reasons.
After the Police State episode first aired, it was scheduled to be replayed the following week as a lead-in for the new episode, but it didn’t air. All the information about the episode was also deleted from TruTV’s website, and even more strange, the people who had recorded it on their DVRs found the episode had been deleted from there as well.220 The show’s producers later revealed that the government put pressure on the network to pull the episode from airing again, and also had cable companies remotely delete copies from people’s DVRs at home since they are linked directly to the cable providers.221
And so, just like the cable companies remotely change the clocks on customer’s boxes every fall and spring to adjust them for Daylight Savings Time, they also deleted an episode of Jesse Ventura’s Conspiracy Theory. It couldn’t get more ironic! A government conspiracy behind censoring a TV show about conspiracies! In all seriousness this instance illustrates the vulnerabilities of using streaming technology over the old fashioned VHS or DVD recorders because once something was recorded on those systems, the only way for a media company to get rid of it would be to physically come to your house and take it, but now they can just make things disappear down a memory hole from miles away with just the push of a button.
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Fake Hate Crimes
While it’s undeniable that hate crimes unfortunately happen and are committed by members of all races against one another, the mainstream media frames the issue as if white people are always the perpetrators, and that black people or other minorities like Muslims or gays are always the victims. There is another interesting phenomenon involving hate crimes that is usually ignored, and that is the practice of people faking them.
The mainstream media has repeatedly hyped-up hate crime hoaxes started by fraudsters and mentally disturbed individuals who know what kind of sensational bait the media is looking for to push their leftist agenda.222 Oftentimes these perpetrators are soon exposed as frauds after investigators discover their stories are fabricated, with many of them ultimately confessing, but by that time the damage has already been done. Their fake stories have spread across social media and gotten picked up by news outlets across the country and social justice warriors have added the incidents to their mental list of reasons to believe that white people or Christians are all out to get them.
The ‘hate crimes’ getting debunked barely garner any media attention at all, while the initial sensational claims spread across the country and galvanize the social groups with the same identity as the phony victims who use the fake stories to prop up their beliefs that ‘their people’ are being systematically targeted and attacked.
Immediately after the 2016 presidential election, we saw a series of hate crime hoaxes that were designed to paint Donald Trump and his supporters in a false light, hoping to dupe people into believing that they were all dangerous right-wing extremists on a rampage against minorities. Just two days after the election a Muslim woman in Louisiana falsely claimed that two Trump supporters yelled racial slurs at her, attacked her, and then stole her hijab. She later admitted to police that she made up the whole story.223
In Indiana, a man spray-painted a swastika and “Heil Trump” on the side of a church, even though he hated Donald Trump, and after he was caught admitted that he wanted to “mobilize a movement” against him.224 A small African American church in Mississippi was burned down and had “Vote Trump” spray-painted on the side, causing initial reports to claim it was done by white supremacist Donald Trump supporters. Soon after, however, a black man was arrested for the crime and police said he painted the ‘Trump’ message on the building to throw off investigators about his true motive which was some personal grievance he had with the church.225
In Philadelphia a black man was caught spray painting racist, anti-black and pro-Trump graffiti on cars and businesses after he tried to make it look like a white supremacist had done it.226 In Charlotte, North Carolina a small local market owned by an Indian had a rock thrown through its window and the front door set on fire. A note was left at the scene which praised President Trump and said, “We need to get rid of Muslims, Indians and all immigrants,” and was signed, “White America.” A surveillance camera caught the perpetrator on video and he was identified and arrested a few days later. He was black.227
Others posted on social media about non-existent ‘crimes’ right after the 2016 election that were made up, claiming they or someone they knew were ‘victims’ of Trump supporters who were randomly attacking Muslims or blacks. 228 The saturation of fake ‘white supremacist incidents’ spread through social media has caused paranoia and panic in many minorities. Lab equipment covered by white plastic tarps at one college was confused for a KKK meeting by a paranoid student who contacted the dean to complain about it after she spotted the ‘KKK hoods’ through a window when walking by.229 At another university some students got scared and “no longer felt safe on campus” after seeing that other students wrote “Trump 2016” in chalk on some sidewalks and stairs.230 The Millennial generation has been so brainwashed that they believe when a white person wears dreadlocks or dresses up as Bruce Lee for Halloween that it’s “cultural appropriation” and hence ‘racist’ and ‘offensive.’231