News that I missed, courtesy of The Babylon Bee:
With questions swirling around the assassination attempt on President Trump, America has been able to rest easy knowing the brilliant minds at the Federal Bureau of Investigation were on the case. After two weeks running over the scene with a fine-tooth comb, the FBI has assembled all of the evidence and reached eleven shocking conclusions:
- There may or may not be a man named Donald J. Trump: A huge breakthrough.
- A state named “Pennsylvania” most likely exists: Still awaiting final confirmation.
- The shooting did not take place on January 6th: Phew!
- A guy with a rangefinder, ladder, and rifle was present for no apparent reason: Interesting.
- A loud, popping noise occurred: The true cause of the noise is still up for debate.
- Some sort of red liquid came gushing out of Trump’s ear: What it was, we may never know.
- Bullets go fast: Those sleuths at the FBI are all over this one.
- Ross and Rachel were on a break: We knew it!
- An unknown object struck Trump after a bullet was shot out of a rifle at his head: Fascinating.
- Trump fell down: Probably because of the loud noise, but who can say.
- The pictures Secret Service took of the shooter 20 minutes beforehand are really great quality: Like, wow. They have a real gift.
Go here to read the rest.
12 Melissa Ann McCarthy is indeed the Secret Service female wearing sunglasses and assisting Trump into the black SUV.
The FBI found out that she’s working on a part time basis only.
Meta / “Fakebook” is now censoring that photo and saying it has been “altered”.
The claim is that the censoring was an “accident” caused by them tracking an actually altered version of the picture that their computer auto-censor program confused with the original.
Most likely they are lying, because that’s what they do, but this is also possible. There are many instances of someone sampling from a video, using it in a song, putting it in youtube’s copyright detection system, followed by youtube taking down the original video that the sampler stole from for “infringing” on the sampler’s work.
However, if their system is that incompetent, it makes it very easy for a malicious actor in facebook to censor whatever they want. Just make minor modifications to the picture, put it in as a “forbidden altered image”, and watch as the computer bans the original too.