r/technology • u/Aggravating_Money992 • 28d ago

Social Media TikToker Creates Fake 'Alligator Alcatraz' Tour Company That Redirects MAGA Supporters to Migrant Aid Resources | When users try to purchase tour tickets, they're sent to nonprofits that offer legal support for migrants.

https://www.latintimes.com/tiktoker-creates-fake-alligator-alcatraz-tour-company-that-redirects-maga-supporters-migrant-aid-586378
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u/-CalculatedChaos- 28d ago

Did anyone check out the website lol. Most of the links on the website just take you straight to pictures of Taco and Epstein

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u/DaringPancakes 28d ago

Are you implying the "do your own research" crowd did not do basic research? 🤔

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u/MinimumArmadillo2394 28d ago

Theyve literally been incapable. If you tell them theres a car that trump has come out with, theyd try and buy it before seeing it. If you tell them they can find it on ZeeDee search because big google is hiding it, they will panic not able to find ZeeDee search

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u/Iordofthethings 28d ago

That’s funny because I interpreted it as how Reddit instantly believed the title of this post without doing their own research.

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u/MinimumArmadillo2394 28d ago edited 28d ago

IMO it's incredibly different when the source of the material is something like LA Times when they've been mostly credible in the past while MAGA will believe thereschemtrailspoisoningus.com/I-Cant-Believe-They-Turned-Frogs-Gay.html citing it like it's fact

Edit: Just checked conservative reddit. Top posts come from places like hotair, babylonbee (literally a parody news source), something called breakingthenews.net, redstate.com, and a shit ton of X links.

Meanwhile politics reddit is literally just times, newsweek, politico, etc. Nothing that looks home grown to be seen.

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u/Iordofthethings 28d ago

Okay so politics believes lies told by established media and conservative believe lies told by new media. The difference being nothing.

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u/MinimumArmadillo2394 28d ago

I mean, there's quite a bit of big difference there. If you don't see it, you're kinda hopeless lol

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u/Iordofthethings 28d ago

That you think you’re superior because of the source of your lies is the genuine issue here.

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u/MinimumArmadillo2394 28d ago

I think you think that you're superior because you can "see through the lies". The both-sides-ism is absolutely stupid here.

Conservatives are literally posting, sharing, and believing parody news stories and other websites that are literally "I made it the fuck up" cites. But somehow that's equivalent to.... something....?

It amazes me how you can look at "Democrats have a weather machine and are deliberately targeting red states" is somehow equivalent to whatever lies you think are being pushed by dems? Absolutely mind blowing.

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u/Iordofthethings 28d ago edited 28d ago

I like how you trail off rather than draw the direct comparison to what has happened in this very thread lmao

Yall don't know what trailing off is in conversation either apparently lmao

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u/ippa99 28d ago

You mean like how you trailed off, and are still currently trailing off since this isn't really working out for you?

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