The Washingtonian wrote an article about the shooting hours before it occurred. (pizzagate)

submitted ago by oiseaulibre

Edit6:This has been found to be likely a Google bug

Here is the source code:

https://i.sli.mg/bDa9Wl.png

Time: 16:10

Edit4 has google threads about the bug.

OP:

Here is an album with the proof:

https://sli.mg/a/CteeyU

Here are the individual pictures:

https://i.sli.mg/7oQoRo.png

https://i.sli.mg/cUljV5.png

https://i.sli.mg/gUvLyv.png

Here's an archive of the article:

https://archive.fo/y70nr

Here's the article itself:

https://www.washingtonian.com/2016/12/04/man-with-rifle-arrested-at-comet-ping-pong/

Edit: I just archived the Google search that displays the article's time since the article itself doesn't say when it was written besides the date. Also, it now says 10 hours ago. I don't know how Google rounds these hours, but the time is way before the "shooting" happened.

https://archive.fo/vvhxb

Edit2: I tweeted this the both the authors and the Washingtonian. So far the Washingtonian has blocked me.

https://i.sli.mg/vf2KIE.png

(Edit3 was found to be incorrect)

Edit3: Here is proof in the source code, courtesy of this comment by @SsupGuys :

https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/1461923/7066841

Edit4: @Omnipotent1 commented that this is a known google bug and @SsupGuys found out that the last edit was incorrect.

Here is @Omnipotent1 's comment:

https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/1461923/7067643

Here is a thread about the issue:

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/webmasters/PCKsjpbqiEo

Here is google talking about the issue:

https://support.google.com/news/publisher/answer/70871?hl=en

Edit5: I should add that @Omnipotent1 's comment does not prove this wrong, but we should look at this with skepticism. Also, as of this comment @Omnipotent1 's account is 22 minutes old.

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SsupGuys ago

Saving meta from the article:

<meta property="article:published_time" content="2016-12-04T16:10:18-05:00" />

<meta property="article:modified_time" content="2016-12-04T21:08:26-05:00" />

<meta property="og:updated_time" content="2016-12-04T21:08:26-05:00" />

go1dfish ago

Publish date is likely set in the CMS to determine when the article is to be released.

May be when setting a date/current date that it sets the time to a specific time in the morning.

I think this is more likely than the more conspiratorial explanation.

SsupGuys ago

I'm not entirely sure if washingtonian is using wordpress, but every CMS including wordpress set the publsihed time when you START writing an article or SAVE it the first time. This has nothing to do with the time to actually publish an article, it would be also pretty odd to specify an article to the exact second it's supposed to be published.

Anyway, as written/edited, I think it's just a bug on the side of google since the time on article seems to be around an hour after the incident happened.

Malignment ago

Time discrepancy is on yahoo and i imagine other search engines too?

Malignment ago

I think they use Wordpress: https://washingtonian.com/robots.txt