Pentagon Alarmed by Taylor Swift Tweets
Pentagon Alarmed by Taylor Swift Tweets
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Pentagon Alarmed by Taylor Swift Tweets
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The report found that there was “considerable anxiety among social media users” after the cancellation of several Swift concerts earlier this month. Those concerts were scheduled to be held in Vienna but were canceled after threats from alleged would-be terrorists. A number of young men were arrested in connection to an apparent plot to kill people en masse. The suspects had allegedly planned to detonate explosive devices at the concerts.
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Imagine just being a super megastar musician, and people want to use your popularity to kill your fans. You're not even the target per se. You just gather a large crowd, and the crowd is the target. Still though, your life is in danger simply for existing.
I'm not even a Taylor Swift fan. I just see her as human, the same way I see the crowd as human.
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“A considerable number of netizens..."
1996 called...
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These netizens reading those e-zines on their pocket computers while listening to shoutcasts…
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well tell them I want my red power ranger motorbike back
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I don't want to live in this realm any longer. Can I switch to the upside-down or something??
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This story became much less interesting after I realized they were worried about tweets about Taylor Swift, not tweets made by Taylor Swift.
As upset as some people get when posters read a headline then go straight to the comments... this shit is why that happens. Headline caught my interest, but now I gotta hit the comments to assess whether the headline has some degree of journalistic integrity, or if it's just clickbait bullshit... and by the time that assessment is done, it can be hard not to be already invested in and engaging with the comments xD
I just go right to the comments. Often they point out the flaws much quicker than me reading bot generated articles. It's not flawless but works 99% of the time.
Preach, brosisperson. That's where many of us were at least once.
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Really do we not expect governments to be reading publicly available information that's put out on social media? They would have to be inept to pass that up.