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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Ziggystrife ago

If Google had the wrong timestamp that's one thing. If the article itself on the Washingtonian had the hours wrong that tells me they likely have a snippet that reads the created timestamp from the database and shows the difference in hours from that. More than likely this website is built on a CMS platform where the authors can create articles, then publish it after the fact. The hours ago might show the Created timestamp instead of the Published timestamp. If I'm right about that then they would need someone to go into the database for this specific record to overwrite the timestamp manually to change it from saying X hours ago as a code change would affect their timestamps on all of their articles.

LtSilverFox ago

You must not know code if you think making that one edit will mess with the rest.

Ziggystrife ago

In a CMS world it can absolutely. I've worked on WordPress, Drupal, Sitefinity, and one other I forget the name of at the moment....if you modify a template it affects all the pages using that template.

LtSilverFox ago

It can but what idiot would right code that way. I'm glad you told me this now I can invent something better than WordPress if I live to see that day

Ziggystrife ago

It's the entire premise of a CMS and why people use them. Create code templates, fill them with user generated content. Instead of modifying potentially hundreds of pages, you modify the 1 template that are linked to that template.

LtSilverFox ago

So your telling me an end user takes this template and whatever adjustments he makes is applied to whatever page has the same template correct? Why not come up with a system.... nvm if that 1st part is right then I'd thanks you a million times

Ziggystrife ago

Yes that is the purpose of a CMS. You manage templates, and pages exist within those templates. It's how sites have thousands of pages of content but really only have 10-30 templates. Just let me hold one of them upvotes and let us move on!

LtSilverFox ago

Sounds a little outdated to me but hey ig that's the most efficient way. I'm only upvoting cause you gave me an idea lol