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I'll remove it if it's too sensational, but there has been a steady stream of panic threads on certain subreddits over the last week, and I was trying to give a

I'll remove it if it's too sensational, but there has been a steady stream of panic threads on certain subreddits over the last week, and I was trying to give an objective, short rehash. Anyways I'm not advocating a jump to conclusions, just to keep an eye on it.

idlewords 10y ago
I wasn't referring to your comment, but to the brouhaha you reference. Sorry to imply otherwise.
FireBeyond 10y ago
Helpfully fueled by some of the Wikileaks crowd, who are active tin-foilers. For example, Gavin MacFadyan, a WikiLeaks staffer, was diagnosed with an illness a while back. A few weeks ago, WikiLeaks said as much, and sent him best wishes in a Tweet. He died the other day. WikiLeaks response was to go back and delete the tweet, and now the flames of his "mysterious and sudden death" are being fanned in those subreddits - "how long before JA dies from a sudden and mysterious illness?" Not to mention the other wing nuts: "There is a wireless telephone bug .This has been caught by my bug detector. Active on the frequency 400 kilo Hertz. Other people also have verified this. This needs stopped immediately check out my timeline. This signal is all across the U.S.A." This is just after the claims of the military raid on the embassy in broad daylight that no-one could get photos of because (they couldn't decide): a) the military were telling people they'd be prosecuted if they did, or b) the military were using technology to "obfuscate" any photos people did take.
- orthoganol 10y ago
  You're probably right to an extent about the tin-foil, but I would say WL fueled the Gavin thing themselves by tweeting "It's been a bloody 6 months for WL [list of 3 who died, incl. Gavin]". Either way for them I think it's mainly the uncharacteristic if not bizarre language, as well as particularly partisan tweets of late. That and JA being MIA.

idlewords 10y ago

I wasn't referring to your comment, but to the brouhaha you reference. Sorry to imply otherwise.

FireBeyond 10y ago

Helpfully fueled by some of the Wikileaks crowd, who are active tin-foilers. For example, Gavin MacFadyan, a WikiLeaks staffer, was diagnosed with an illness a while back. A few weeks ago, WikiLeaks said as much, and sent him best wishes in a Tweet. He died the other day. WikiLeaks response was to go back and delete the tweet, and now the flames of his "mysterious and sudden death" are being fanned in those subreddits - "how long before JA dies from a sudden and mysterious illness?" Not to mention the other wing nuts: "There is a wireless telephone bug .This has been caught by my bug detector. Active on the frequency 400 kilo Hertz. Other people also have verified this. This needs stopped immediately check out my timeline. This signal is all across the U.S.A." This is just after the claims of the military raid on the embassy in broad daylight that no-one could get photos of because (they couldn't decide): a) the military were telling people they'd be prosecuted if they did, or b) the military were using technology to "obfuscate" any photos people did take.

orthoganol 10y ago
You're probably right to an extent about the tin-foil, but I would say WL fueled the Gavin thing themselves by tweeting "It's been a bloody 6 months for WL [list of 3 who died, incl. Gavin]". Either way for them I think it's mainly the uncharacteristic if not bizarre language, as well as particularly partisan tweets of late. That and JA being MIA.