Reply #58: The site might be down temporarily.

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I'll keep checking and will repost the original when it's available.

Some time back I tried to reconstruct anti-Libyan stories like this from the early days in Benghazi and Derna to see if I could tell what really happened.

It was a mess(some of which was sorted out by AI, BTW) with one story witnessed by seven people turned into seven different stories, or one story from one place that suddenly blossomed into several nearly identical ones from multiple locations, or detail added and varied out of the blue with repetition. There were single incidents that were abstracted into wholesale slander. I saw green flags suddenly pop up in the middle of videos as if done with a badly leaking felt marker.

The latest was that 'CIA recruits 1500 Afgans to fight in Tripoli' scam. I think it was even on DU for a while. Maybe I'll look tomorrow to see where it ended up.

If there was anything learned in that exercise, it was who not to trust, and that true stories have a natural progression of validation that the fakes can't match. The Qalaa massacre story is textbook in that regard.