How queen’s death followed a disinformation playbook by billdmccarthy
People walk past a giant portrait of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II in Spitafields Market in London, on September 16, 2022
But the misinformation tactics deployed after Buckingham Palace's announcement on September 8 were mainly old tricks remodeled to fit the current story and make falsehoods stick in people's minds. Warning signs of disinformation sprang up as soon as the queen went under medical supervision, when imposter Twitter accounts disguised as news outlets published and relayed false updates on her status."People all around the world were aware of and impacted by the queen's death, giving purveyors of misinformation a virtually limitless range of false narratives to choose from," said Dan Evon at the nonprofit News Literacy Project .
Others named Clinton as the culprit, claiming the queen announced before dying that she had political dirt on the former US presidential candidate and secretary of state. "For an anti-vaccine activist, they figure out if the death can be mapped to vaccines. For a conspiracy theorist, maybe they map to Clinton or Epstein."
One video popular in QAnon circles, which some supporters claimed showed a naked boy escaping Buckingham Palace, was actually an old promo for a fictional TV show.In the week after the queen's death, media intelligence firm Zignal Labs tracked more than 76,000 mentions of the late monarch that referenced Epstein and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell -- both convicted sex offenders -- on social media, websites, broadcast and traditional media.
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