美国联邦航空管理局（FAA）周五应对前所未有的全国性停飞令之际，一则关于特朗普及其高级助手的骗局在社交媒体上疯传。多条社交媒体帖子声称，唐纳德·特朗普及其政府高级官员因潜在威胁被转移到地下掩体。放大该说法的声音之一是极右翼评论员、特朗普的前盟友亚历克斯·琼斯。琼斯声称，一场据称的网络攻击导致了故障，特朗普及其他官员因担心更多攻击而被转移到地下掩体。
As the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) dealt with an unprecedented nationwide ground stop on Friday, a hoax about Trump and his top aides has gone viral. Multiple posts on social media claimed that Donald Trump and top officials in his administration have been moved to a bunker due to a potential threat. One of the voices that amplified the claim was far-right commentator and former Trump ally, Alex Jones. Jones claimed that a cyberattack purportedly caused the outage, and that Trump and other officials were moved to a bunker fearing more attacks.FAA administrator Bryan Bedford said at a press conference on Saturday afternoon that a cyberattack or AI malfunction was not behind the outage.
FAA管理局局长布莱恩·贝德福德周六下午在新闻发布会上表示，网络攻击或人工智能故障并非造成故障的原因。美国交通部长肖恩·达菲将其归咎于承包商可能的失误或设备故障。两人均排除了蓄意作案作为可能原因，调查仍在继续。辟谣病毒式传播的掩体说法关于特朗普被转移到地下掩体的说法似乎起源于推动极右翼理论的社交媒体账号。
Sean Duffy, the US transportation secretary, attributed it to a possible error by a contractor or an equipment failure. Both have ruled out foul play as a possible cause as probe continues. Debunking viral bunker claim The claim about Trump being moved to a bunker seemed to have originated in social media accounts prompting far-right theories.
亚历克斯·琼斯声称，特朗普在故障期间“躲在白宫里”。“特朗普总统躲在白宫里，而历史性的大规模网络攻击正在瘫痪美国各地的重大系统，国土安全部却拿出一个荒谬的掩盖说法，称是一根松动的电线造成了这一切，”琼斯写道。进一步放大该说法的是警报网网站上的一则新闻报道。
Alex Jones claimed that Trump was "holed up in the White House" amid the outage." President Trump is holed up in the White House while historic mass cyber attacks are taking down major systems across the United States and the DHS is putting out the ridiculous cover story that a loose wire has caused all of this," Jones wrote. What further amplified the claim was a news story on the website AlertNet.
该报道突出了一位前国土安全部分析师和吹哨人的言论，暗示特朗普在中期选举共和党失利后已退入一个“比喻意义上的掩体”。“像任何有志成为独裁者的人一样，你最终会在政权末期退入比喻意义上的掩体，身边是最忠诚的拥趸，而这些人往往愿意把自己扭曲成领导人想要的任何形状，”这名前国土安全部分析师迈尔斯·泰勒在FAA系统故障期间对《卫报》表示。
The story foregrounded a remark by a former Homeland Security analyst and whistleblower suggesting that Trump has moved to a figurative bunker after the Republican losses in the midterms.“Like any wannabe autocrat, you end up in the figurative bunker at the end of the regime with the most hardcore loyalists, which tend to be the people who are willing to contort themselves into whatever shape the leader wants,” the ex-DHS analyst, Miles Taylor told The Guardian amid the FAA outage.
尽管AlertNet上的报道明确指出泰勒谈论的是“比喻意义上的掩体”，但缩略图却给人一种特朗普被转移到掩体的印象。特朗普本周末在白宫度过，周六和周日没有安排重大活动。他周五晚间本身就对FAA系统故障做出了反应，排除了网络攻击作为可能原因。关于特朗普被转移到掩体的骗局，出现在关于代理美国司法部长托德·布兰奇的类似骗局传播几小时之后。
Though the story on AlertNet clearly specified that Taylor was talking about a "figurative bunker," the thumbnail gave the impression that Trump was moved to one. Trump is spending the weekend in the White House with no major events scheduled on Saturday and Sunday. He reacted to the FAA outage on Friday evening itself, ruling out cyberattack as a possible cause behind it. The hoax about Trump being moved to the bunker comes hours after a similar hoax was spread about Todd Blanche, the acting US Attorney General.