I fell for it too. I think this trial became the perfect psyop.

Okay, so I got really sucked into this trial. I watched the whole thing, read about it, checked for updates. All of it. Before anyone gets upset, I’m not saying this case was fake by any means. I’m not saying the children weren’t real or that this was staged. Cora, Dawson and Callan were three innocent children, and what happened to them is devastating and heartbreaking. I feel for their family, the jurors and everyone who had to live through this. This also isn’t a post about which “side” of the trial I’m on.
When I say psyop, what I mean is psychological influence. Basically it’s steering what people are thinking about, feeling and focusing on. It’s not a tinfoil-hat internet word. Governments have used actual psyops forever. Like for example the U.S. used fake ghost recordings during Operation Wandering Soul in Vietnam. WWII involved propaganda leaflets and fake radio broadcasts. COINTELPRO used fake letters and disinformation to create distrust and fighting within political groups.

Do I have proof that someone in the government sat down and planned the Clancy coverage? Not at all. But a real event can still be amplified until it functions like the perfect distraction. And that’s what I think happened here. Because for almost seven weeks and still counting, this trial completely consumed a lot of people. Everyone was pushed into one of two camps. People were fighting with strangers, friends and even I’ve heard people fighting with their partners over whether Lindsay was psychotic or calculating or if it was something else entirely. Meanwhile, some absolutely INSANE stories involving powerful institutions were barely being discussed that were literally happening at the same time as all this.

Trigger warning because this is disgusting: Harvard agreed to a $53 million settlement connected to its former morgue manager stealing body parts from people who donated their bodies to science. He and his wife sold and shipped brains, skin, organs, dissected heads and faces. A buyer reportedly entered the morgue and purchased two dissected faces. People in the wider network talked about tanning human skin and binding books in it.
Like, what the actual fuck? How was everyone not talking about this? ALSO at the same time, Meta reached a settlement worth up to $17 billion over allegations involving children’s data and addictive features. AND a Massachusetts mayor was charged over misuse of a $1.5 million pandemic-relief loan. AND a nationwide license–plate surveillance system collected around 20 billion scans a month, with officers accused of misusing it.
I’m not judging anybody for getting absorbed in the trial whatsoever. Again, I did too, unfortunately. This is honestly just a PSA: when one story is suddenly everywhere and has everyone emotional and fighting, stop for a second and ask what else is happening behind the scenes because I promise you, you’ll find a lot