Originally Posted at Free Market Shooter
After the recent shooting at a Florida high school, a great deal of questionable stories were spread about the shooter, Nikolas Cruz. Some sites reported that he was affiliated with the Antifa movement, others have shared photos of an Instagram account alleged to have belonged to Cruz (a story which has been all but confirmed, at the very least). The amount of misinformation put forward when a previously-unknown individual makes headlines almost requires explicit confirmation before a story is to be regarded as fact.
Nowhere is that more evident than the case of Jordan Jereb and Cruz’s alleged links to white supremacist movements in Florida. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and Associated Press (AP) first reported that Cruz was linked to the Republic of Florida group the day after the Florida massacre.
The story quickly spread, and pretty soon it was picked up by every possible news outlet, liberal and conservative alike. The Drudge Report even made it their headline, with an accompanying image of Cruz:
One would think that the ADL and AP had some iron-clad sources to run with this story. And unless one considers 4chan and a Discord server to be iron-clad, one would be sorely mistaken.
The ADL and AP initially only stated that “Jordan Jereb” was their source. It seems geography is not the mainstream media’s strong suit, as the Republic of Florida is based in Tallahassee, nowhere close to Cruz’s Broward County residence. All it took was a phone conversation with someone claiming to be Jereb for this story to take hold all across the internet, courtesy of the ADL and AP.
So, who led the ADL and AP to Jereb? None other than 4chan, with help from a Discord server that likes to play pranks on Jereb…
…which was then “confirmed” by a bunch of Twitter accounts linked on 4chan, and with a phone call to an apparently sleep-deprived Jereb:
By the time Jereb stated that the entire story was a “misunderstanding”, it was far too late. Cruz was officially a white supremacist, and the story remains on the ADL’s Twitter timeline, without any corresponding tweet that the story was a hoax.
Law enforcement officials in Florida subsequently confirmed that they had found no connection between Cruz and the white supremacist group.
In their eagerness to pin the horrific massacre on far-right “white supremacists” (which could then be extrapolated out to demonize all conservatives for the shooting), the media ran with the story despite having no independent confirmation whatsoever.
Almost 24 hours after it was confirmed that the original story about Cruz being a member of a white supremacist group was fake news, the AP, the ADL and others have failed to remove tweets and news stories that are completely erroneous.
The story was originally broken by Microchip, who took to Twitter to explain the importance of Cruz being classified as a white supremacist (note: screenshots have been taken of Microchip’s tweets, as it is likely a matter of time until his account is removed):
The irony of the ADL attempting to combat “fake news” yet promoting their own version of it is revolting. It is even worse when you consider the fact that it appears Jereb was obviously conned by the organization into providing an inaccurate statement. Keep this in the back of your mind the next time any liberal organization attempts to label all conservatives as a domestic terror organization.
There are far too many sad stories emerging from the Florida tragedy, and the facts surrounding the incident are still emerging. Media outlets rushing to judgment have only succeeded in formenting hatred and scorn for anyone who dares to oppose the “mainstream” (read: anti-Trump) view.
No amount of retractions can undo the damage already done to some of the victims… assuming there are any retractions at all. While there is likely no love lost for Jereb, the victims of Cruz’s horrific crimes deserve no such foul treatment. However, this seems to be the sad state of American politics today – rush to judgment first, without any regard to confirming facts.
The claim is probably false but since it has been reported it will be remembered by the public that way.
FWIW, the Republic of Florida: https://republicofflorida.wordpress.com/
They weren’t punked. They were trying to punk the public by intentionally printing lies. They were successful . A percentage who read the headlines will never read the retraction and will think it is a fact forever.
To understand why Jews are suspicious you have to look at Cruz’s victims. By chance, almost half were Jewish. Jews tend to project their own fears and hatreds on others so when there is a bad outcome affecting Jews it must be a deliberate act of malice. OTOH when there is a positive outcome for Jews, say Harvard admissions , number of US Senators or Supreme Court justices it is just the natural order of things.
Obviously Cruz was not deliberately targeting Jews but Jews don’t want to believe it was just bad luck if they can pin it on something else like Cruz was a white nationalist even if they have to make it up.
I think you can stay the same about any identifiable group.
But other ‘identifiable groups’ do not have control of national media organs to promote their version of events even if their version is lies.
BLM can only gain access to the media so long as their version of events dovetails with a Jewish objective.
To the MSM it’s better to be first than accurate. If you’re wrong you can always retract it later…if you’re right the headline is “We Were First To Bring You The Facts “.
I think the joke around the newsroom is “Print it first; retract it second.”
ROF is probably just a natural reaction to the Communist Control of Tallahassee.
What if Nikolas Cruz was actually a Zionist Jew, a Rabbi, a member of AIPAC, a Democrat, AntiFA foot soldier in Redneck Revolt, and long term supporter of both the SPLC and ADL?
/None of this is necessarily true – so it should be on CNN later. Right?
Turns out he is actually Jewish. CNN probably won’t mention it.
And after the Florida shooting, a new play is being written: “Get Rid of Trump’s FBI Director so We Can Put in Our Guy.” Summary: Hard for someone involved in the crime to investigate the crime.
It’s the same story written with a different title every day.