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WIRED @wired.com

Epstein files? A "false flag." Texas floods? A "false flag." Welcome to the era of the "false flag," where every single major news event is now being labeled as fake. What could possibly go wrong...

jul 22, 2025, 3:22 pm • 973 237

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Joe Covello @jccpunj.bsky.social

This is just an extension of the trump playbook, destroy facts, truth and credibility of all MSM and then the people will believe anything. Since few people fact check or research anything those that do fact check will find little credible evidence to go on. Lies become fact.

jul 22, 2025, 4:47 pm • 2 0 • view
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Hunter Knight @whunterknight.bsky.social

The lies aren’t told with the hope they’ll be believed, they’re told so that we won’t know the difference between the lie and the truth.

jul 23, 2025, 1:15 pm • 0 0 • view
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David Quinn @davidquinn.oideachasmedia.com

If all the power and money wasn’t in the hands of the idiots who believe them I’d a lot of damage to the overall world economy but cuz they do it will just be damage for the millions of people who don’t

jul 22, 2025, 10:35 pm • 0 0 • view
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Gulo @gulogulo77.bsky.social

Honest question: Is anyone working on internet filter apps? Not for words or phrases, but to effectively filter out bots and AI? Seems like we are also entering an era of fake engagement.

jul 22, 2025, 3:35 pm • 4 0 • view
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Centrist Sisyphus @centristsisyphus.bsky.social

“False flag” is an intellectually lazy way to set aside that which one doesn’t want to wrestle with, to maintain alliances that aren’t what they seem. “That person who worked against me didn’t really do that, it was actually our mutual enemy!”

jul 22, 2025, 3:27 pm • 3 0 • view
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IDDQD @tosmithereens.bsky.social

So the Gov is utterly stupid in preventing all these false flag operations, right?… right?

jul 22, 2025, 4:51 pm • 0 0 • view
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Gregg Havens @dundeeyank.bsky.social

They're only fake in witch hunts if you're Donald Trump, or if you're a member of his trumplican Congress or administration

jul 23, 2025, 1:58 pm • 0 0 • view
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K_L_Cooper @kleytoncooperr.bsky.social

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jul 22, 2025, 3:32 pm • 1 0 • view
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Insert Name Here @jp-red.bsky.social

Right from the ruzzian playbook. No surprise.

jul 22, 2025, 6:34 pm • 0 0 • view
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clayr1916.bsky.social @clayr1916.bsky.social

📌 #pin

jul 22, 2025, 4:50 pm • 0 0 • view
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US Asunder @usasunder.bsky.social

In the same way that it's not possible that 100% of scandal is true. 100% of scandal cannot be false.

jul 22, 2025, 4:50 pm • 0 0 • view
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sassyseniorsandy.bsky.social @sassyseniorsandy.bsky.social

That is what happens when media and govt. are all owned by the same people!

jul 22, 2025, 4:02 pm • 0 0 • view
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Allie Chase @ladyalase.bsky.social

So “False Flag” is the new “Fake News”. This is all getting so tiring, I hope we don’t have to deal with this for the whole 4 years….

jul 22, 2025, 9:28 pm • 0 0 • view
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Lom @lom-eil.bsky.social

m.youtube.com/watch?v=p0AK...

jul 22, 2025, 11:11 pm • 0 0 • view
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theseapirate.bsky.social @theseapirate.bsky.social

The people who said “the people in charge are to blame”are now in charge.

jul 22, 2025, 10:41 pm • 0 0 • view
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libramoon @libramoon4.bsky.social

welcome to post-reality

jul 23, 2025, 12:00 am • 0 0 • view
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jeanmoulin4ever.bsky.social @jeanmoulin4ever.bsky.social

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jul 22, 2025, 3:22 pm • 8 0 • view
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Raffaella Isidori @zetaraffix.com

This (propaganda & propagandist methods of comms) is what has enabled the shitty (too high) number of populist governments (or aspiring ones). One thing that can easily turn wrong fast is the impact of reality. i.e. Texas floods can be downplayed in (say) Oregon But Texans get to see them. And ⤵️

jul 22, 2025, 5:40 pm • 0 0 • view
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Raffaella Isidori @zetaraffix.com

⤴️ while bias is strong, witnessing an event is way more potent. And just as someone has injured faith in (say) news outlets, the same mechanism can backfire Tenfold, because it’ll carry the weight of awareness of having been played

jul 22, 2025, 5:40 pm • 0 0 • view
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LETS GO KRASNOV @openforbusiness.bsky.social

This 👇🏾 is a fake president.

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jul 22, 2025, 4:05 pm • 0 0 • view
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VernBob @vernbob.bsky.social

Clearly this False Flag article is a False Flag filled with falsities and flagarities aimed at ... Where was I going with this? 😕

jul 22, 2025, 4:16 pm • 2 0 • view
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US Asunder @usasunder.bsky.social

haha. down a rabbit hole, you were going down a rabbit hole...

jul 22, 2025, 4:51 pm • 1 0 • view
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godhatesyeast @godhatesyeast.bsky.social

three cheers to the collaborationist court media for helping to create a society with absolutely no grounding in reality at all

jul 22, 2025, 6:39 pm • 0 0 • view
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SFB @theonetruedoink.bsky.social

Keep it up. The false juxtapostion of conspiracy theories and false flags. You are helping the fascists enormously. Doing their work for them in fact. You'll have the country believing that conspiracies don't exit. Never have! And we know there are no false flags! Just ask the IDF!

jul 22, 2025, 4:08 pm • 0 0 • view
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Monsters & Angels @monstersandangels.bsky.social

#Epstein / #tRUMP My profile will display documents and photos. <<< REPOST >>> bsky.app/profile/mons...

jul 22, 2025, 3:52 pm • 0 0 • view
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mdretired.bsky.social @mdretired.bsky.social

Trump “assassination” attempt…definitely false flag.

jul 22, 2025, 3:26 pm • 2 0 • view
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medicinebudha @themedicinebudha.bsky.social

Epstein ~ Read. Respond. Resist. (~);} sign.moveon.org/petitions/ep...

jul 22, 2025, 5:02 pm • 0 0 • view
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WIRED @wired.com

False flag conspiracy theories have been around for decades, long before the emergence of the internet. But the volume of social media posts mentioning “false flags” is now at an unprecedented high, according to new research shared exclusively with WIRED.

jul 22, 2025, 3:22 pm • 45 2 • view
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WIRED @wired.com

Data from ISD shows that over the past five years, false flag claims have increased by more than 1100 percent on X, and the situation is getting increasingly worse.

jul 22, 2025, 3:23 pm • 48 5 • view
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WIRED @wired.com

“It's unprecedented in terms of the volume, the speed at which it spread and the level of engagement that we saw. Some of these accounts were not that big and yet they were garnering millions of views in a matter of hours” Valeria de la Fuente Suárez, a digital research analyst with ISD tells WIRED.

jul 22, 2025, 3:24 pm • 66 2 • view
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WIRED @wired.com

“The Trump presidency has mainstreamed conspiracist rhetoric to mobilize political distrust and promote anti-establishment sentiment," Pradeep Krishnan, an expert in conspiracy theory and communication at the University of St Gallen in Switzerland, tells WIRED.

jul 22, 2025, 3:28 pm • 61 7 • view
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dbergstr.bsky.social @dbergstr.bsky.social

Not everybody lies like trump these days; but shamefully many do

jul 22, 2025, 3:54 pm • 0 0 • view
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Tradecraft for Backyard Wildlife @paranoia123.bsky.social

When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail

jul 22, 2025, 3:44 pm • 0 0 • view
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Lightning Six @lightningsix.bsky.social

It's reminiscent of Sandy Hook... Republican parents who lost children in recent floods should consider reaching out to Sandy Hook parents for support. What options remain when the GOP dismisses your suffering to protect their own failures and absence of genuine solutions to systemic issues.

jul 22, 2025, 6:41 pm • 5 1 • view
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mcvlc.bsky.social @mcvlc.bsky.social

Really amazing that something so tragic occurred on the heels of this disastrous administration dismantling the institutions that make us safe like NOAA, NWS, EPA🤨

aug 22, 2025, 9:22 pm • 1 0 • view
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Nick the Goalie @nickthegoalie.bsky.social

maybe an oversimplification but a lot of conspiracy theorists are just plain dumb and thinking they've "figured something out" makes them feel smart. "am I onto something?" is like a drug to people too stupid to realize the most obvious explanation is many times true

jul 22, 2025, 11:22 pm • 0 0 • view
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Nick the Goalie @nickthegoalie.bsky.social

"isn't is suspicious that this poor area flooded and then a bunch of real estate developers came and bought the wreckage to build up and sell at higher prices?? were they seeding clouds?????" no doofus it flooded cause the infrastructure was bad and the vultures took the first opportunity. next

jul 22, 2025, 11:24 pm • 0 0 • view
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lbennet.bsky.social @lbennet.bsky.social

We are in Orwell territory. “Don’t believe your eyes. Believe me!”

jul 22, 2025, 5:52 pm • 3 0 • view
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Predictive Stupidity @onemoney.bsky.social

Funny how the pipes that deliver all the world's knowledge into the palm of your hand also delivers the all the world's garbage. Quick, easy access to actual verifiable, evidence-based knowledge of almost everything on earth is no match for the human capacity to believe nonsense.

jul 22, 2025, 3:32 pm • 3 0 • view
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Techsticles @techsticles.bsky.social

False or fake is just another word for 'problematic' for some people and that is the problem in the world.

jul 22, 2025, 3:35 pm • 0 0 • view
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Mark Buchanan @markabuchanan.bsky.social

What about all of the unqualified people Trump has appointed to his cabinet?

jul 22, 2025, 5:03 pm • 0 0 • view
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rbrown5518 @rbrown5518.bsky.social

STOP voting for and giving your trust to LIARS! www.historynewsnetwork.org/blog/154001

jul 22, 2025, 3:52 pm • 0 0 • view
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Ruby Robert @rubyrobert156.bsky.social

Everything’s a false flag now, truth gets buried while chaos takes the spotlight.

jul 23, 2025, 1:15 am • 0 0 • view
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crabbycoach.bsky.social @crabbycoach.bsky.social

Wired, you are earning yourselves another subscriber and a heartfelt "thanks" for not bending the knee to a wannabe king.

jul 22, 2025, 5:47 pm • 4 0 • view
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Lom @lom-eil.bsky.social

#WIRED are legends of the internet and investigative journalism, the totem of a major cultural movement. www.wired.com/video/watch/...

jul 22, 2025, 11:25 pm • 2 0 • view
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Jon Clark⚧️🌹 @hendersonclark.bsky.social

RELEASE THE PEDOFILES!

jul 22, 2025, 4:05 pm • 0 0 • view
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NakedTruth @wertheworld.bsky.social

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jul 22, 2025, 3:28 pm • 7 1 • view
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Ashok Dhillon @adblog.bsky.social

Ain't that the truth!

jul 23, 2025, 1:26 pm • 0 0 • view
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reddawndemocracy.bsky.social @reddawndemocracy.bsky.social

One of the critical steps to Fascism is to invalidate the media/mews/facts. They have been relentless.

jul 22, 2025, 7:09 pm • 3 0 • view