The funniest thing about the FlyDubai story is watching the entire internet collectively stare at it and go: Oh, this fucking bullshit again

Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2026/10/03/flydubai-false-flag/


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[–] 22 points 22 hours ago (1 child)

This seems unconvincing, yet spoken up with such confidence it reads like propaganda.

Checking everything linked, it seems it all boils down to

  • Stories and numbers of passengers don't line up/make sense
  • politicians quickly capitalized on it

Which, makes sense. People do in fact mix up order of events, play up experiences, ... when there was some crazy event happening.
And politicians will absolutely use it for publicity and do weird things like keep the "hero" in bloody shoes at all cost for media effect.

The articles by this author also say Netanyahu alluding to an attack before it happened is evidence Israel planned it, while Iran warning of a false flag is evidence their intelligence predicted it correctly.
Which can just as well be seen the other way round, with Iran planning it and starting their disinformation ahead of time and Israel catching some information via intelligence.
Other than the idea that someone probably vaguely predicted this, this is ultimately meaningless.

If this were a conspiracy it'd also seem way too large to me. hundreds of passengers, you have to keep flight recorders from the public and from uncontrolled aviation safety agencies, you have to deal with the airlines and other countries involved.
Even if this were just meant as an election boost, I would be doubtful if this can last even a month. And if it blows up it'd backfire spectacularly.

TL;DR
Fuck off " Skwawkbox", 1 year old canary "author" account, and come back when you have some evidence. And then present it like a normal person not a propagandist.

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  • [–] 4 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

    And here comes the conspiracy theories...

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