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If someone needs an explanation of the Twitter process and what hijacking a thread is, reply and I'll explain.
Someone started the hashtag NeilYoungLies (and a website) to claim he was lying about the tar sands oil in Canada. Of course, decent Canadian folk couldn't allow that to go unchallenged so they hijacked the thread. There are more examples at the link, but here's a few.
Here is the initial thread establishing the hashtag. I'm pretty sure this is brought to you by Koch Brothers, Inc.
@NeilYoungLies
NeilYoungLies
NEW SITE exposing @NeilYoungLies in his campaign of abusing celebrity status to wage a campaign of deceit & propaganda against #cdn oilsands.
Here are a few of the replies:
The horse may have been displaying some early symptoms of dementia, but he wasn't crazy. #NeilYoungLies
At best, "Cinnamon Girl" was a "Sassafras Soccer Mom". #NeilYoungLies
Cortez was acquitted of all charges. #NeilYoungLies
sugar mountain is actually responsible for a 60% uptick in adult onset diabetes. #NeilYoungLies
"Down by the river, I shot my baby dead." Neil Young has NEVER been found guilty of murder. Who is he covering for? #NeilYoungLies
"Old man take a look at my life, I'm a lot like you were." Neil Young was JUST 27 when he wrote that. What else is he hiding?
Trashes our resource economy, yet claims to be a miner for a heart of gold. #NeilYoungLies
Go Neil!!! You must be getting under someone's skin. The Koch Brothers don't spend money to trash just anybody.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/01/21/neil-young-oilsands-twitter-neilyounglies_n_4637955.html
sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)money on that ridiculous account. Thanks for the link. Probably NOT the results they were expecting. I might go an help out also.
progressoid
(49,827 posts)Might as well just play a bunch more!
mdbl
(4,972 posts)I beg to differ. It seems their mission in life.
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spanone
(135,637 posts)Hissyspit
(45,788 posts)What a ridiculous fucking concept.
cui bono
(19,926 posts)okaawhatever
(9,453 posts)There are no prohibitions with regard to flying on the ground. #NeilYoungLies
Wrong, sir: Burning out = fading away #NeilYoungLies
"Maybe the Star of Bethlehem wasn't a star at all..." WHICH IS IT MR. YOUNG? #NeilYoungLies
Who else was in the room when Neil Young saw the needle and this so-called "damage done"? Hmmm....#NeilYoungLies
And your love, it turns out, is technically just a tropical storm #NeilYoungLies