EDIT: The FBI has since corrected themselves and are now treating it as an act of terror.

  • @jeffw
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    The FBI is investigating the NO attack as an act of terrorism. This is how misinformation spreads.

    • Jo MiranOP
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      At the time the N.O. Mayor’s office was arguing that it was not a terrorist attack. The FBI is now looking into it as a terror attack. Things change. It happens.

      EDIT: Sorry, busy morning and got it turned around. Mayor’s office said it wasn’t terrorism, FBI said it wasn’t but has since changed their tune.

      • @seedotrun
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        The FBI special agent in charge said on a live broadcast a couple of hours ago that it was not terrorism. Maybe she misspoke. Maybe they realized the PR nightmare of that choice. But it is certainly not misinformation

        • @[email protected]
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          The fact that PR might play into whether a specific attack is terrorism or not undermines the whole concept.

          • @[email protected]
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            Not really. They might have been hesitant to label it as terrorism to prevent a panic. It’s not uncommon for law enforcement to withold details of an ongoing investigation for such reasons, or to not tip off co-conspirators that they’re on to them.

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        Other way around, Mayor always said it was terror, FBI originally said it wasn’t. Well, one person from the FBI anyway.

        The headline in your image “unclearly” states exactly that. FBI declares “not terrorism, -contradicting- Mayors statement”.

      • Snot Flickerman
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        Shocker that when big, horrendous events happen that it’s all chaos and people not knowing what’s happening for hours and hours afterwards. ~~ You know, not everything is a big fucking conspiracy. Sometimes its just different groups operating on different levels of available information and on different opinions on said information in the immediate aftermath of a horrific disaster… I doubt the New Orleans mayor spends a ton of time working with the FBI, a completely separate organization.~~

        Nobody knew what the fuck was happening in the first hours after 9/11 either, so much so that they changed laws about information sharing between organizations due to the lack of clear communications at the time, which only ever sort of helped.

        See also: A BBC journalist saying WTC 7 had collapsed while WTC 7 was standing behind her in the background. The BBC was working off an incorret Reuters report when they made the report and I don’t expect a foreign news correspondent to be super familiar with which building WTC 7 actually was. Mistakes and miscommunications happen.

        I take it all back, it’s because the guy is fucking Muslim. I guess the War on Terror never ended.

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      Source: https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/new-orleans-mass-casualty-bourbon-street-01-01-24-hnk/index.html

      The FBI is investigating the deadly New Orleans incident at an “act of terrorism,” the bureau said in a statement.

      “This morning, an individual drove a car into a crowd of people on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, killing a number of people and injuring dozens of others,” the FBI said in a statement. “The subject then engaged with local law enforcement and is now deceased. The FBI is the lead investigative agency, and we are working with our partners to investigate this as an act of terrorism.”

      I guess all the “journalists” being on Bluesky isn’t enough for it to not be filled to the brim with bullshit, too.

      • @[email protected]
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        The subject then engaged with local law enforcement and is now deceased

        It makes it sound like the cops wouldn’t have done anything if the guy hadn’t brought the fight to them.

    • sp3ctr4l
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      Also, unless there has been a recent development, last I heard on the two shot cops was they were in stable condition, not dead.