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Twists of Memory
Sep. 4th, 2020 07:14 pmOver on Wonkette, the following story is currently under discussion:
Attorney Lin Wood made his name by representing Richard Jewell in his defamation cases against the media and the US government. If you knew who Wood was before last week, it's either because of that or because he also represented JonBenet Ramsey's parents and brother in their respective defamation cases. ….
Earlier this week, Wood was blocked from attempting to raise money for Rittenhouse's defense on Twitter. Both Facebook and Twitter banned praise of Rittenhouse's actions last week, and Discover has prohibited users from donating to his defense fund.
Today, Wood posted a very weird tweet claiming that in 1996 "Mark Zuckerberg & Facebook declared Richard Jewell to be a mass murderer," and that "efforts to raise money for Jewell's defense & family were banned on social media."
According to the Wonkette article, Wood subsequently claimed his tweet was a satire, or an allegory, or something, but that numerous right-wingers were already denouncing Zuckerberg for his terrible slander of Jewell back in 1996 when Facebook didn’t yet exist and Zuckerberg was in middle-school.
Anyway my reaction was to sigh and shrug, not because of the wrongness or the politics but because false memories and the Mandela Effect and traditions that, having once taken root, get their origin stories backdated several centuries, all seem to be pretty common. Debunking stories is an endless treadmill. Which led me to remember a book about the Indian Rope Trick.
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Attorney Lin Wood made his name by representing Richard Jewell in his defamation cases against the media and the US government. If you knew who Wood was before last week, it's either because of that or because he also represented JonBenet Ramsey's parents and brother in their respective defamation cases. ….
Earlier this week, Wood was blocked from attempting to raise money for Rittenhouse's defense on Twitter. Both Facebook and Twitter banned praise of Rittenhouse's actions last week, and Discover has prohibited users from donating to his defense fund.
Today, Wood posted a very weird tweet claiming that in 1996 "Mark Zuckerberg & Facebook declared Richard Jewell to be a mass murderer," and that "efforts to raise money for Jewell's defense & family were banned on social media."
According to the Wonkette article, Wood subsequently claimed his tweet was a satire, or an allegory, or something, but that numerous right-wingers were already denouncing Zuckerberg for his terrible slander of Jewell back in 1996 when Facebook didn’t yet exist and Zuckerberg was in middle-school.
Anyway my reaction was to sigh and shrug, not because of the wrongness or the politics but because false memories and the Mandela Effect and traditions that, having once taken root, get their origin stories backdated several centuries, all seem to be pretty common. Debunking stories is an endless treadmill. Which led me to remember a book about the Indian Rope Trick.
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