RELATED: Fact-checking misinformation about the George Floyd protests in Minneapolis "how does dc go from being on fire to being completely silent? somethings not adding up," wrote one of the first Twitter users to share the hashtag, which has been mentioned hundreds of thousands of times. The hoax goes like this: To quell unrest at Black Lives Matter demonstrations, officials in Washington started "jamming all communications." That move prevented protesters from using their cell phones to contact each other. In the early hours of June 1, Twitter users like SoyBoy2020 used the chaos to plant the seeds of a false narrative about a government crackdown on protesters. Multiple fires burned near the White House, and the Washington Monument was surrounded by smoke. Protesters faced off with police and National Guard troops overnight. On May 31, demonstrations over the death of George Floyd, a black man who died in Minneapolis police custody after a white officer kneeled on his neck, hit a fever pitch in Washington, D.C. But by the end of June 1, #dcblackout had become a viral conspiracy theory on Twitter, highlighting how uncertainty surrounding Black Lives Matter protests around the country can lead to the rapid spread of misinformation on social media. Under normal circumstances, it might have ended there. It got four retweets and 13 likes - not bad considering SoyBoy2020 has only five followers. The post was the first instance of the hashtag #dcblackout on Twitter that day. Im bipolar so I’m wondering, anyone have any idea if this was a hallucination because of a possible mental disorder or just from drugs? Psychosis maybe? I’m freaked out a bit.It had only been June for two hours when SoyBoy2020 sent the tweet. Supposedly I told my mom I wanted to cook… I called telehealth and they recommended I go to the hospital but it’s never happened before. I realized I couldn’t even remember hanging up the phone, going inside my house, and why I was even cooking. I tried to remember what I had been doing. Once I snapped out of it, it took a little bit of time to fully think clearly again. She said I was talking to myself and I looked really happy and was laughing and stuff. I was speechless, I asked my mom did you see or hear that? Obviously she said no. I dropped a carrot and my mom called my name so I turned out and then I snapped out of it. And we were talking having a conversation with each other, but I don’t remember what it was about. It looked like a really large head with small arms and legs kind of floating watching me slice the carrots. While slicing the carrots, out of the corner of my right eye there was this figure. I thought I was dreaming so I wasn’t panicking thinking I was hallucinating. When I say it felt like a dream, it legitimately felt like I was asleep, so the fact that I also felt like I was in a video game didn’t seem strange. After that, I remember I was slicing a bowl of carrots and suddenly I felt as if I was in a dream but also in a video game. I was smoking talking on the phone with a friend and the next thing I remember is I’m inside my house taking my clothes off til I had only my bra and underwear on. I smoke weed every day and I’ve taken Ativan before too. I got home and smoked some weed, nothing out of the ordinary for me. I had taken about three Ativan in total in the last like 24 hours because of a high amount of stress I was experiencing. Yesterday I took an Uber home after having had taken an Ativan.
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