X is a massive rumor mill increasingly powering the Right’s political reality — and this week showed us the cost.
A Brown University student was falsely accused of the Brown/MIT shootings after an anonymous post on X went viral.
Within hours, influential accounts and public officials — including in Congress and the DOJ — amplified the rumor as fact. Days later, police identified the real suspect…someone else entirely.
Today’s most potent rumor mill has fused w/a political propaganda machine.
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Anonymous accounts surface rumors, influencers frame them, and political elites decide which to legitimize. This was why “Eating the Pets” was a national story for two full wks in 2024.
Here’s why conservative leaders are powerless to address the conspiracy theories tearing their movement apart, and what it would take to restore accountability in an ecosystem that rewards shamelessness over truth:
https://open.substack.com/pub/agentsofinfluence/p/the-rumor-mill-and-the-propaganda
https://open.substack.com/pub/agentsofinfluence/p/the-rumor-mill-and-the-propaganda?r=6vlt&utm_medium
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