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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So this is OP - and I was talking with a reporter friend about this yesterday. She observed that these TikToks seemed pretty random and obscure - until they got amplified by Yashar Ali on Twitter. And that's when they started getting insane traffic - and when the letter on the Guardian's website started getting insane traffic.

She thinks that basically this was a whole lot of nothing until excited old people gave it tons of attention - then it turned into something.

So, I guess yay to us olds for falling for it again.[/quote]

I think this is significant backtracking to try and hide the tacit endorsement of OBL from members of the media. I’ve heard other reporters try to claim the same and I mostly think it’s a scramble to justify the Guardian’s promotion of OBL’s letter.

The fact is that the letter started resonating with an audience that doesn’t have the education or rigorous thinking skills to understand it as propaganda. [/quote]

Did The Guardian do anything to "promote" it beyond hosting it on a website for the last 20 years?[/quote]

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