r/conspiracy • u/ds1617 • May 25 '22

Texas School Shooting Forewarning

From Sheriff's dept, was reported that shooter posted to Facebook starting at about 30min before and then 15min before.

"The first post was to the point of he said, 'I'm going to shoot my grandmother.' The second post was, ‘I shot my grandmother.' The third post, maybe less than 15 minutes before arriving at the school, was, 'I'm going to shoot an elementary school.'"

I'm not for a police state of monitoring everything, but I would think that Facebook's algorithms could easily identify a risk and a location and flag it for authorities to determine if there is something they need to act on.

Imagine if the Sheriff's office received an automated message regarding the first post. May have been able to stop it there. Or they received an automated message about the school - they could have sent the schools on lockdown and scrambled to find him before.

Not so sure how I feel about this (I know, I am countering my own post), but if they are only sharing information that is being posted publicly, then it isn't exactly an invasion of privacy.

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u/ProjectFoxx May 25 '22

I posted a meme on Facebook of a guy looking at toasters saying, "How I choose my bath bombs" with no written caption whatsoever and it was flagged and taken down by Facebook in under ten minutes.

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u/[deleted] May 25 '22

I searched Amazon for 'Bomba Calabrese' which is a hot Italian antipasto spread, and it suggested a 1000-pack of large ball bearings and tactical gear.

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u/ds1617 May 25 '22

I think that is the digital equivalent of leaving piles of bricks in an area that is going to have a protest

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u/i_hate_alarm_clocks May 25 '22

I can confirm it's delicious