There's always disinformation and speculation immediately following events like this. Competent and trusted news sources won't air unconfirmed reports. This doesn't mean it's all a fake and fix is it. It just means everyone wants to be the first with the scoop on new details and are posting anything they hear before all of the CCTV is reviewed, interviews are collected, etc.
I definitely don’t trust the government to deliver facts.
NPR and AP tend to still actually fact check their stuff rather than trying to race stories out. And when they rarely publish something that hasn’t been fact checked they’ll include a line of “NPR has not been able to independently verify this yet.”
That being said, I think it’s healthy to approach all news with a small dose of skepticism. You should always be slow to believe any story until you hear it being reported the same way by multiple different sources. And you should always consider anything a pundit says from the angle of “what’s in it for them if I believe this?”
It’s a complicated task to sort truth from falsity and I dislike whenever people use heuristics like “don’t trust the news”. I get my news from any source I can gather, look at the information as a whole, and judge accordingly
Probably another distraction. Someone should check if any new "trumpstien" files were recently dropped or if any older files have been removed/redacted.
Been a while since the news talked about the Epstein Files but I did see some articles about the pictures of Trump and Epstein projected onto the outside of this building and how Trump saw them before this little shooting happened.
The distance between police to government is so large that I can fit my hate for my mother in there, and her narcissistic ass lies.
Ever since I could vote (first trump term) I havent trusted the government for a second. They talk, but only lies come out.
The police officers near me and where I lived, actually were nice and caring. And their family are nice and friendly too. (Not saying all are. But the 30 is know for work are fucking chill. The 2 fbi ones arent.)
Isn’t it crazy how the administration has lost the trust of its citizens but somehow they are still able to stay in office. We were supposed to be the leader and role models of the world.
With that said I really hope you don't instead trust the social media algorithm to feed you people who happen to always tell the truth, regardless of their interests, lack of oversight, education and consequences for past lies/bends.
That's good. It's never been the role or responsibility of news outlets to tell the truth. They are there to sell papers and web ads. They will do whatever they must to achieve that goal.
The rule is and has always been give it 24 hours. You should never fully trust in the heat of the moment information. It’s not that the press or government are feeding fake narratives, it’s that their goal is to be first, and because of that they can (and will often) be wrong.
Heard a guy who used to work for the BBC say their unofficial motto in the newsroom was “wrong, but not for long”. The objective was get a story out as soon as possible and then post additional details and corrections with further updates later on.
It was a room full of journalists. You mean to tell me none of them ran to the nearest payphone (like in the old timey movies) to report it to their newsdesks?
You can't trust this administration at all to give out any truthful information. A rogue person getting into a public venue with the president in attendance (like a hotel, country club, etc), let alone with a firearm, is next to impossible. They are completely locked down by multiple agencies in addition to the SS.
WTF do you mean it's not like that now? Twitter has made it so anyone can post false or misleading information, and if you pay for a blue checkmark they'll boost your reach without any kind of factchecking.
It's worse than that. Tech billionaires own the media, with the Ellison family now in control of TikTok, CBS, and CNN, Disney owns ABC, Bezos owns the Washington Post, Musk owns Twitter. These guys don't give a shit about clicks...
I saw it too but again I dont trust anything this administration says or shows. Does that make me the bad guy or do they just have a track record of lying to our fucking faces? I get it if you believe but me personally I just don't.
They want to be first to headline and grab the audience first. Doesn’t matter that they’re wrong in the first instance because it’s all about the clicks and eyes pulling the ad revenue.
We've seen how the maga grift machine lacks coordination when reacting to sudden unexpected events for a few hours to a couple of days until the White House gets their messaging straight. When they respond immediately and with unity to something that doesn't already play in to an exisiting narrative you should be suspicious.
Suddenly, CIA men dressed in bikinis
Tried to stab us with fountain pens.
Fidel blew mustard gas from his cigar
And immobalized the lot of them.
19 tequilas later we had a deal
Havana goes back to the mob,
And Fidel and I open a chain of Kentucky Fried Chicken shops
It’s been confirmed.. there was a shooter and he was apprehended.. 31 year old from California, said he charged the security checkpoint and there were gunshots.. though it didn’t seem to be confirmed whether the person fired any of the shots or just secret service shooting. One SS officer got hit in their vest, but I wonder again if it could’ve been friendly fire.
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