The far-right propaganda machine doesn't know what to do with Ashli Babbitt
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An array of videos shot from different angles shows Ashli Babbitt, a 35-year-old Air Force veteran from the San Diego area, in a group of rioters smashing windows into the Speaker's Lobby, a chamber in the U.S. Capitol. Inside were lawmakers and staffers, feet away from an angry crowd attempting to break its way in.
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Before authorities even confirmed she was dead, notorious radio host Alex Jones was talking about her death on-air. He repeatedly referred to the shooting as an “execution,” and posted graphic, uncensored video of the shooting all over his website to elicit outrage. (It’s worth noting here that Jones repeatedly claimed in broadcasts leading up to the riot that he was in communication with the White House about organizing the event and spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on logistics.) Frequent InfoWars guest Tom Pappert’s National File “news” site also picked up that angle. “Ashli Babbit, Peaceful Protester Executed by DC Police,” one headline reads. Others skipped pretence and went straight to calling her a martyr.
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In this version of events, Babbitt is either a “spy” or, even stranger, not dead at all. Although her social media activity and interviews with family and co-workers paint a clear picture of her radicalization through online conspiracy theories, that very ecosystem has now disowned her. A post by the QAnon Patriots account on Parler sums up the most common conspiracy theory circulating: “Ashli Babbit was a False Flag Operation. She is alive,” the post reads. “Only a small amount of her immediate family would know, the rest have to believe she’s dead to keep up the illusion.”
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A post on Parler that baselessly claims Ashli Babbitt, the woman killed inside the Capitol building, was an "antifa" agent. The unverified account appears to be impersonating a member of the Trump family in order to seem more credible.
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We have never seen conspiracy theory proliferate in real-time at this order of magnitude. Instead of coalescing months or years after the event, it’s happening extemporaneously on social media. Propagandists who once dictated narratives are treading water. The waves of groupthink are carrying them toward the dominant storylines pushed on Twitter and Facebook, and more extreme hubs like Gab and Parler.
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