Come la disinformazione ha preso piede alle conseguenze di Carlow Shootmath

Thsi is a fantastic rundown of what happened and how quickly the bullshit spread. I remember 40 mins after the incident a relative in carlow sharing a whats app screenshot message that a muslim with a suicide vest had killed multiple kids with a shotgun and was trying to blow himself up. Some sick bastard had even included a photo of a shooting where some poor child had been shot in the head and was lying motionless on the ground. The car reg in the background was an entirely different colour than irish reg, and the cars were driving on the right hand side in the photo. Thats how fucking stupid this shit is.

The right wing loons are the ones who spread this shit.
But much of the posting is outsourced or supported by bots to give the impression that there is some ground swell of support.

But when you see how few turn up to protests and how many are the type that are easily influenced or have other issues.

You see that without social media this shite would have died out years ago.

There was an incident in Citywest IPA centre a while back where some of the residents had gotten in a brawl. There was a post circulating on Whats App showing Arabs attack an ambulance claiming it was from Citywest. It was edited to make the setting ambiguous enough. I did an reverse search on Google and it was from back around the time of the Arab Spring in another country. Funny how these people who claim to do their own research believe anything that’s shown to them.

You just can’t believe anything you read.

A while back, after the De La Salla Primary school was sold off, some woman from the area would go down to the school every evening and live stream on Faceache that is was going to be refugees. Yet there were plans available to see that new apartments were being built.

Then, another time… the old Nissan building at the Naas Road. Some far right dickhead took a picture of it and said about all the mattress in there and it being an IPAS centre…eh no, that is Diamond Furnitures warehouse you absolute asshole.

These people want to incite violence. They want to scaremonger and I think the person who starts it off should be jailed.

The digital footprint of these people making racist and uneducated comments should not be forgotten. Too often, it’s ‘ah, don’t mind that he makes mad racist comments online, he’s harmless’, and that is completely wrong. People need to be held accountable for what they write online. One local musician in my area plays the pubs and is a complete right-wing loser online, always commenting about how COVID wasn’t real, etc, but people give him the benefit of the doubt because he doesn’t have the balls to say it in real life. I don’t think people realise the digital footprint they leave.

There should be social media bans given to these mala head “citizen journalists”, there’s a lad that keep popping up on my tiktok feed “daznews” or something, he’s an absolute fool, amplifys anything immigration related, was claiming 7 people where shot in carlow as he was driving down to the scene to get more information. This clown was crying on tiktok about a year ago because the very people he’s in with now where abusing him for being a government plant 😂

Your man “this is Dublin” aswell, complete scumbag drug dealer now acting like he saving irelands women and children from the scary immigrants, doubt he cared too much when he was selling heroin to kids in dublins inner city

I regret adding to his view count but I watched a bit of Philip Dwyer’s live stream from the scene in which he was saying that there were several casualties, including a little girl who had “been shot”.

He was describing it as the biggest story in Ireland in several years – but after the news came out that the shooter was a white Irish guy, he ended his live stream precisely 13 minutes later.

Gobshite.

I come from nearby. I watched with absolute gobsmacked horror at how quickly the misinformation spread. I mean, on FB the usual wans were shrieking about the shooter being an evil undocumented refugee, and there were people replying, “I saw him, he’s Irish.” “I seen the body he’s Irish” etc. … but that was ignored. When the shooter’s face was posted on FB – sigh – the same wans were weeping about this beautiful misunderstood soul, a victim of the mental health crisis in Ireland.

You couldn’t make it up.

Find it hilarious that RTE would post an article about misinformation.

Maybe I’m too cynical, but I feel like the people who spread misinformation on purpose and fall for it aren’t going to listen to RTE since its run by like pedophile lizards or whatever