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Twitter moved really fast on this one, and not in a good way. 4chan created a meme map declaring that the USA was under a DDOS cyberattack, and all of Twitter apparently immediately decided that this was the truth - including some US senators.

(It does not appear to be a DDOS attack.)

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youre doing the same thing. 4chan didnt create a "meme", the map youre seeing is from digitalattackmap.

How do people get digitalattack map to show today? I can only see yesterday on there and some people are posting images that say the 15th.

Either way, it's being taken out of context. There are always DDoS attacks like that. The past couple of months has had constant traffic on their timeline.

some other maps are showing the same stuff, but DDOS maps are inconsistent due to how the data is gathered. None of them are truely a panopticon.

I have my own theory that these sites are actually the ones astroturfing this stuff when services go down.

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