I’m interested in when and how I fall for misinformation on the internet as a relatively sophisticated consumer, so for myself more than anyone, figured I’d talk out loud through my thought process on this one. It started with my assuming the information was true, and my gut reaction that…. - ThreadSky

alexjd.bsky.social • 2 days ago

I’m interested in when and how I fall for misinformation on the internet as a relatively sophisticated consumer, so for myself more than anyone, figured I’d talk out loud through my thought process on this one. It started with my assuming the information was true, and my gut reaction that….

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This is not what he did and cmon, he is doing enough bad stuff, we don’t need to create and amplify misinformation about his actions to effectively criticize him. This kind of thing drives me bonkers.

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alexjd.bsky.social•2 days ago

this was really outrageous. That in turn prompted some assessment on my part. How outrageous was it? Not more than hiring groypers to dismantle govt agencies, but more outrageous imo than waving a chainsaw around at CPAC or calling the head of ISS the r word. This assessment requires understanding…

alexjd.bsky.social•2 days ago

the accusation: that Musk used his unique position of authority to steal private information about a federal judge’s daughter to then publicly dox and target her for harassment. That’s so bad. Good to triage these things when possible. My assessment led me to inspect the original post more closely…

alexjd.bsky.social•2 days ago

And I noticed the guy included a screenshot, and not a quote post, of the allegation, and it didn’t even include the actual Musk post being referenced. This alone should have warranted further investigation before re-posting it as a fact. (I’m sure I’ve been guilty of this in the past). Because….

alexjd.bsky.social•2 days ago

it was a screenshot without the source post, I google searched for about 30 seconds and found what appears to be the original musk post in question. Here it is:

alexjd.bsky.social•2 days ago

I should add at this juncture that the rest of this thread assumes Loomer identified the correct person as the judge’s daughter (big assumption, but I’ll make it here since it’s not really germane to my point). Immediately I noticed that they are posting her LinkedIn profile (so unless…

alexjd.bsky.social•2 days ago

she is private on LinkedIn and Loomer connected with her to view her profile, it’s all public info provided by the daughter herself), PLUS a different-looking document that is presumably the alleged “tax form.” This didn’t look like a tax form on its face to me, so I inspected it more closely, and..

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