Drynwyn wrote:DemonFiren wrote:Drynwyn wrote:
There was however a google bomb by 4chan with the deliberate intent to introduce the false information that the shooter had definitive leftist associations.
This is perfectly plausible, but I'm still gonna need a source.
https://arstechnica.com/information-tec ... oter-news/
Meant to link this in the original researchpost, but forgot to. My apologies, lizardfriend.
Sounds to me like this isn't an intentional thing, and more just 4chan talking about it so much that google picked it up as a news site through algoritms, and the 4chan digging was picked up too and followed as if it was actual journalists by google
Which is fair, really. They do dig more than actual journalists. It's just that they immediately post any sort of result or name they find instead of double and triple checking if this person is involved. That's for other people who are also digging to establish.
Imagine being in the room with a few hundred people all looking up stuff. If one of them finds a lead, he tells the others. This doesn't mean it's a conclusion yet, it just means they found something that's possibly related and are looking into it.
So blame google for that one, not 4chan. 4chan was just doing its usual intel gathering to figure shit out, google decided this meant they were authorities on the shooting and reported it as such