“Asking for Evidence” Is Now A Conspiracy Theory…

The Washington Post now claims to ask for evidence is a conspiracy theorist technique.

As the general public is asking to see the police body camera footage and security footage of the Paul Pelosi attack the Washington Post is claiming that asking for the video i

The Washington Postw was quoted saying that when the public asks “release the video of the responding police officers! What are you hiding?!”

Then they are promoting a “conspiracy theory”

Asking for evidence is the new conspiracy theory. https://t.co/padjfXsIuL

— Cernovich (@Cernovich) November 2, 2022

‘Release the video’ is mostly a way to extend the conspiracy theory https://t.co/q7vl2a6WRs

— Post Politics (@postpolitics) November 2, 2022

The Washington Post article:

On Tuesday evening, The Washington Post reported that the Capitol Police had a live feed of the Pelosi couple’s San Francisco house during the attack but that no one was monitoring the feed. In short order, a new demand emerged: Release that video! Release the video of the responding police officers! What are you hiding?! Because this is how the conspiracy theory continues to ooze forward. There’s always some information out there being suspiciously hidden that will prove the conspiracy theory correct. If that information is suppressed, it reinforces the conspiracy theory. If it is released, it becomes evidence that contributes to the conspiracy theory — colored yarn is pinned to it — or attention just turns to some other just-out-of-sight information.

The internet makes all of this so depressingly easy. Not only is it a warehouse of information, it is also the corkboard and the colored yarn. You can forage for evidence of your belief system to your heart’s content and you can see how other sympathetic allies have strung together their own theories.

I frequently come back to Lawrence Lessig’s 2009 essay “Against Transparency” in which he warned that publishing information in the interests of governmental transparency would simply give people scads of material to generate their own narratives. That’s exactly what happened, though Lessig didn’t foresee that the advent of social media would vastly speed up the narrative-building process.

Gee, seems like the easiest way to debunk the conspiracy theory is… to release the video.

— Joe Bonsens (@BonsensJoe) November 2, 2022

Check out this propaganda.

Now we know for sure there was some f'd up shit going on at Pelosi's house that night.

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— Golden Advice 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲 (@RichardStiller4) November 3, 2022