The danger is right there. The collapse of the Baltimore bridge has surprised image experts and social analysts due to the enormous flow of ‘fake news’ it has unleashed. And the monitoring of millions of people who have viewed them. There are hundreds of hoaxes and there are all kinds of them. The most hackneyed is the usual one in this type of forum, that of the terrorist cyber attack that drove all the container ship’s systems crazy, took control of it remotely and directed it against the base of the viaduct to completely destroy it.
The theory that the captain fainted after receiving a dose against Covid-19 has also been widely accepted in anti-vaccine circles. An example of the way this type of defamers operate and how every fact is valid in order to bring the ember to the sardine. Forget, yes, that on this ship and on all of them there are pilots. If the captain had fainted, the most likely disruption on the bridge would have been to take him to the infirmary. Or sit him in a chair, not leave him the helm. By the way, another malicious rumor claims that the captain is Ukrainian. He possibly was manufactured in Russia. The rumor, not the captain, who is a native of India.
Beyond the contents themselves, the manifest capacity of conspiracy groups, troll farms and individuals committed to the most delusional hypotheses to infect the network in just the twenty-four hours after the accident has already had the effect of alarming strategists. American politicians. These professionals have seen in this avalanche a preview of what may happen in the electoral race between Democrat Joe Biden and Republican Donald Trump when it enters its final stretch in the summer and its consequences in a country where 25% of the population still believes the FBI orchestrated the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Intoxicating agents
If the accidental collision of a ship against the Baltimore bridge has been converted on the Internet into a deliberate or terrorist act for millions of Americans, and many have internalized it, experts are scared at what could happen in a presidential campaign whose development is foresees a dog’s face, with a media diffusion like never seen before in the electoral history of the United States, and a huge number of “intoxicating agents” on the prowl; from Russian disinformation groups to ultraconservative forums and internal extremist movements, such as QuaNon, this one that claims that Democrats are a group of satanic pedophiles who devour children (true).
And it is not even necessary that these be associations of lysergic or ideological inspiration. You don’t have to eat a hallucinogenic mushroom or be ultra-radical to sow trash. Among those who promoted pro-Trump ‘fakes’ in the 2016 campaign there was also simply a group of Macedonian teenagers who entertained the hours of boredom by making proclamations in favor of the Republican tycoon and crude falsehoods about the Democrats.
Biden versus Trump
Experts are scared at what could happen in a presidential campaign whose development is expected to take place in a dog’s face.
It impacts the speed at which human misery expands. The fact that thousands of citizens saw the hoaxes on Tuesday morning before the real ‘Dali’ accident is shocking. Non Stop. Without filters. Some media reported on the “impression” that many individuals felt when they saw a truck bomb explode on a bridge on certain networks, without realizing that it was the attack that occurred two years ago on the Crimean viaduct in the context of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Some of the ‘fakes’ are certainly successful, such as the one that shows the structure of the Francis Scott Key shaken by a chain of controlled explosions before falling into the river, as if it were a demolition.
‘Blame’ of Israel, Russia, the Obamas…
Communication experts who have analyzed this phenomenon denounce its interested relationship with current events. Some false statements link the collapse with the Government of Israel, whose relationship with the White House has been clouded these days by the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza, others with a preventive attack by Russia and there are even those who blame the Obamas, just as they come out. in support of Joe Biden at Democratic rallies. As? The Obamas hitting Baltimore? Attention, the relationship is bizarre.
The producer of the former president and his wife, Michelle, participated last year in an absolutely dystopian film about the world in the midst of an apocalypse, starring Julia Roberts and Ethan Hawke: ‘Leave the world behind’, a success on Netflix that owes a good part from that popularity to its ability to generate political and finalist theories of the planet we know. Well, in one scene you can see a ship running aground on a beach after suffering a cyber attack. Why do they want more? A perfectly surreal and illogical fit with Baltimore, but perfect for those who see ghosts behind the curtains. But there is more. The ship in the feature film is called ‘White Lion’ and it turns out that the container ship ‘Dali’ was heading to Sri Lanka, whose flag has a lion printed on it. Mix everything well and the crazy cocktail is served with the Obamas in the middle.
The Broening highway has become a pilgrimage point for curious people who want to see the accident site up close. Chip Somodevilla/AFP
Every catastrophe has an innate power to unleash conspiracies. However, among network and communication experts, concern is growing about its unbridled increase and, above all, its ability to reach the last digital corner in just a few hours. Baltimore has been, in fact, a devastating example. There are specialists in this type of handling such as A. Tate, an individual accused of sexual crimes who, despite everything, has millions of followers on the internet. Shortly after the collision he spread the false idea that “foreign agents” had destroyed the bridge after “cyber” attacking the merchant ship. His tweet had more than 18 million views in just 36 hours. Alex Jones, another disseminator of catastrophic theories, published: «A cyber attack is probable. The Third World War has already begun. The individual sells survival packages and encourages his supporters to buy them so that the end of the world catches them well supplied and, apparently, fed.
Space lasers
Things are going very, very far. Immediately after learning that the fatal victims of the bridge were Hispanic immigrants, the authorities knew that the evil was going to explode. The mayor of Baltimore asked citizens for “decency and respect” and to help prevent “misinformation” from being spread. But it didn’t take long for right-wing forums to mix state integration policies with the catastrophe by suggesting that it occurred because the viaduct maintenance workers lacked a higher level of professionalism. It didn’t matter that, in reality, the ship’s attack was what caused the viaduct to collapse and they were the victims of the accident. As if the pavement patching had brought it down. Fanaticism kills worse than reality.
It didn’t take long for right-wing forums to mix state integration policies with the catastrophe, whose fatal victims were Hispanic immigrants.
Fortunately, there are intellectuals like David Simon, creator of the series ‘The Wire’, whose setting is precisely his city, Baltimore, who counterattacked with irony and political finesse. He explained to the conspiracy theorists that the container ship lost propulsion and was left without steering after suffering a blackout. He then added that they could attribute the electrical failure to an attack by “Jewish space lasers”, alluding to the embarrassing intervention of the Republican and renowned Trumpist Marjorie Taylor Greene, who said last year that the wave of serious forest fires registered in California could be caused precisely by space lasers behind which the Hebrews were.
2024-03-29 14:08:36
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