The Google Trends Spike Before the D.C. Shooting Raises New Questions

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Post by kldavis4 » Fri, Nov 28, 2025, 7:29 PM UTC

The Google Trends Spike Before the D.C. Shooting Raises New Questions
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Post by downrightmike » Fri, Nov 28, 2025, 7:42 PM UTC

I'd bet $100 that all the shootings are just admin attempts to incite justifications for admin actions.

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Post by epistasis » Fri, Nov 28, 2025, 7:45 PM UTC

I wish this had a bit more technical information, because I don't think I learned much here other than some people are looking into it, and apparently shouldn't subpoena IPs or anything.

Is there a time zone misalignment, perhaps? If it's one or two searches, could it be the shooter searching their own name? Unless there's a clear technical reason showing these to be artifactual, why is a subpoena premature?

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Post by arccy » Fri, Nov 28, 2025, 7:45 PM UTC

too many words with no conclusion at all

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Post by Eridrus » Fri, Nov 28, 2025, 7:48 PM UTC

This does not currently show up on Google Trends, so unless you're trying to go full conspiracy mode here I don't see why we should trust this random screenshot to be accurate: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=now%207-d&geo=...

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Post by londons_explore » Fri, Nov 28, 2025, 7:52 PM UTC

I'm gonna guess some timezone related bug in googles data source - especially when the client timezone and country specific Google site might be set wrong but incorrectly trusted for this data source.

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Post by giarc » Fri, Nov 28, 2025, 7:57 PM UTC

Eridrus wrote: post #5

This does not currently show up on Google Trends, so unless you're trying to go full conspiracy mode here I don't see why we should trust this random screenshot to be accurate: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=now%207-d&geo=...

If you change the region, it does show up.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=now%207-d&geo=...

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Post by Eridrus » Fri, Nov 28, 2025, 8:22 PM UTC

giarc wrote: post #8

Eridrus wrote: post #5

This does not currently show up on Google Trends, so unless you're trying to go full conspiracy mode here I don't see why we should trust this random screenshot to be accurate: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=now%207-d&geo=...

If you change the region, it does show up. https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=now%207-d&geo=...

Are you in a different timezone?

I an in EST and do not see any traffic before 7pm Nov 26 EST.

I can confirm I am seeing data in EST time because the latest data available is from 20 mins ago in EST.

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Post by gmuslera » Fri, Nov 28, 2025, 8:28 PM UTC

May not be related with this in particular, but how many names that are not tied to any shooting or whatever appear in low activity google trends? It could happen with most names around the region where you live, i.e. related with spam campaigns, AI searches, people curious about people in their neighbourhood or whatever that covers most of the people? If it is something common giving a reasonable time frame before a given moment, it could be a coincidence that may not be so rare. Checking only backwards for a particular event and not doing the check forward to see if that is unusual is a missing link there.