I don't doubt the autopsy but i find this framing a bit weird
> In the absence of an official autopsy, a coalition of right-wing pundits, conspiracy-minded journalists, crypto enthusiasts, and even Democratic politicians have questioned the circumstances of his death — and, at times, amplified misinformation about the case.
How is this a left/right/crypto issue? Also, before official information is released, i would not consider speculations "misinformation"
It’s not active misdirection but it has less than zero value to speculate.
If had a dollar as a paramedic for every time I’d heard “it’s good, I’m not suicidal any more” or “he would never have done that to us so it must be foul play” that then turned out to be, well, suicide, I’d have a lot of dollars. Sadly.
Seriously speaking, I'm always against putting labels on people because it usually is used to divide them to "those who you hate so you should not worry about them". Amplifying misinformation is also what I'm against so this sentence will always be obscured to me
> Balaji was found dead Nov. 26 in his Lower Haight apartment. The San Francisco medical examiner quickly ruled it a suicide but did not release an official report until Friday.
(article is 14.02.2025).
So he needed a lot of time to put it on paper.
> Ramarao later told The Standard that the secondary autopsy proved her son was shot in the back of the head from an angle at which he could not have shot himself,
And none of them released autopsy reports.
There is nothing to see here, please move along. /s
Except it was the family that refused to release the autopsy report, and their own lawyer disputes the claim.
"Ramarao later told The Standard that the secondary autopsy proved her son was shot in the back of the head from an angle at which he could not have shot himself, and that it was “cold-blooded murder.” At the time, the family declined to provide a copy of the autopsy, and Goethals [the family attorney] disputed Ramarao’s claim, saying he “would not characterize it as conclusively proving murder.”"
7 comments
[ 0.21 ms ] story [ 26.9 ms ] thread> In the absence of an official autopsy, a coalition of right-wing pundits, conspiracy-minded journalists, crypto enthusiasts, and even Democratic politicians have questioned the circumstances of his death — and, at times, amplified misinformation about the case.
How is this a left/right/crypto issue? Also, before official information is released, i would not consider speculations "misinformation"
If had a dollar as a paramedic for every time I’d heard “it’s good, I’m not suicidal any more” or “he would never have done that to us so it must be foul play” that then turned out to be, well, suicide, I’d have a lot of dollars. Sadly.
Seriously speaking, I'm always against putting labels on people because it usually is used to divide them to "those who you hate so you should not worry about them". Amplifying misinformation is also what I'm against so this sentence will always be obscured to me
You'd be surprised of the ability of certaing groups to appropriate unrelated even vaguely popular issues to increase their reach and polarization.
(article is 14.02.2025). So he needed a lot of time to put it on paper.
> Ramarao later told The Standard that the secondary autopsy proved her son was shot in the back of the head from an angle at which he could not have shot himself,
And none of them released autopsy reports. There is nothing to see here, please move along. /s
"Ramarao later told The Standard that the secondary autopsy proved her son was shot in the back of the head from an angle at which he could not have shot himself, and that it was “cold-blooded murder.” At the time, the family declined to provide a copy of the autopsy, and Goethals [the family attorney] disputed Ramarao’s claim, saying he “would not characterize it as conclusively proving murder.”"