Disinformation Timeline and What's Next

To recap, we start the day with the press conference in which authorities detail the shell casing writings, conversation with family members. Link to PC Statement

The shell casing writings:
- “notices, bulges, OWO, what's this?"
- “Hey fascists! Catch!”
- “Oh bella ciao, bella ciao, bella ciao ciao ciao."
- “If you read this, you are gay LMAO.”
Link to Ping Pong's thread

I will note that Ping Pong did get the arrows thing wrong. It's a reference to Helldivers 2 and a commonly used meme format which goes beyond ideology in the gamer circles. The "Fascist Catch" one, however, is a very specific reference to a commonly used meme amongst the left. See this one from Simp4AOC (if you can deduce ideology from that...)
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The Guardian backs up Robinson's ideology later on


Then, the orders went out. Be forewarned, the timeline is going to be out of place. This is generally how I saw them in real time, but it all happened at once.

It started with a few accounts with just enough reach. It started with this post by Anonymous

This is a photoshopped image. The real image is Tyler Robinson wearing what was apparently one of two short-sleeved shirts he actually owned: this one plain red

This started going around as well, completely disregarding the fact that this is a reference to the squatting slav meme that was popular back then. The Pepe Slav is a reference to the meme and not the original. This is, indeed, linked to Groypers but the Halloween picture predates the Groyper movement BY A FULL YEAR



This started circling around earlier, but they also found some other guy also named Tyler Robinson and linking a donation to Trump back to the shooter. Tyler would've only been 16 or 17 at the time and did not live in St. George, UT


There was another post on X from some guy calling himself a journalist who just outright made shite up. Can't find it, when I do I'll post it, but there was enough to get the Reddit machine going.

Then the first breakthrough happened...
Daily Mail drops a typical DM slop article that no one asked for where they spoke with his grandmother:


That was enough for Daily Beast to drop what would become the centerpiece of disinformation in this


I'm not going to link that article, but they do not mention the quote about Tyler never speaking politics with his grandmother.

Then came the bot accounts. We've even seen them here. And it eventually grew to the point where Congressmen are either hinting at it, or outright going with it.





Outlets who aren't yet committed to outright fabrication began doing what they can for the cause.



(The Atlantic)


Once The Guardian realized their publication was being used to contradict the narrative, they pulled it