EDIT: The FBI has since corrected themselves and are now treating it as an act of terror.
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The FBI is investigating the NO attack as an act of terrorism. This is how misinformation spreads.
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 was terrorism, FBI said it wasn't but has since changed their tune.
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
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".
You're right. My mistake.
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.
Source: https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/new-orleans-mass-casualty-bourbon-street-01-01-24-hnk/index.html
I guess all the "journalists" being on Bluesky isn't enough for it to not be filled to the brim with bullshit, too.
The cops being idiots doesn't make this misinformation xD