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Not sure if this is the best place to discuss this topic but I need some critical thinkers and the great minds of Metabunk on this one. BTW sorry about my English as I'm not a native speaker. Also sorry if my post is not structured well enough for the MB standards. I'm willing to learn. 
So, yesterday there was a mass school shooting in Prague that you may have heard about:
https://www.expats.cz/czech-news/ar...ch-square-leaves-multiple-people-dead-injured
The shooter was quickly identified as a 24 year old Czech student David Kozak and his Telegram channel was quckly discovered as well:
https://news.yahoo.com/prague-gunman-shared-mass-shooting-205415074.html
Here is the link to the channel. Some people claim they cannot see it but I believe you need to use the app to access it:
https://t.me/Kozak_David
Now, you can basically read about the contents of that channel in the Yahoo article. Here is the full transcript as per Google translate. The first post, in bold, was edited - more on that below.
What's interesting to me is the following:
- all the posts are written in Russian. Some say the writing is indistinguishable from that of a native speaker. Others say it feels like it's Czech run through Google translator. I cannot possibly judge this as I do not speak the language. The shooter was a Polish history major so there is some chance he dabbled also in Russian history and had learned to write and speak the language. I'm really not sure.
- the channel was created on December 9th 2023, i.e. weeks before the shooting. It has `Kozak_David` in the link URL which is immutable and connects the channel to the name of the shooter.
- the first post of the channel, and only this post, was edited on the day of the shooting at 16:55CET
This is 1-2 hours AFTER the shooter was reported dead by the police!
(it is not known what the post said before the edit)
- you cannot JOIN the channel so it is likely that Telegram admins have disabled the option
So, what do the great minds of Metabunk think? Psy-op? Accomplice? Currently, local "experts" are doubting the channel was created by the shooter - the main sticking points being the use of Russian and the "post-mortem" edit. They are basically suggesting a Russian psyop, but at the same time they concede the whole thing is perplexing. Because if we concede a psyop, how did the people behind it know a certain "David Kozak" will shoot up a school?
Many thanks and feel free to ask me further questions. I will answer if possible.

So, yesterday there was a mass school shooting in Prague that you may have heard about:
https://www.expats.cz/czech-news/ar...ch-square-leaves-multiple-people-dead-injured
The shooter was quickly identified as a 24 year old Czech student David Kozak and his Telegram channel was quckly discovered as well:
https://news.yahoo.com/prague-gunman-shared-mass-shooting-205415074.html
Here is the link to the channel. Some people claim they cannot see it but I believe you need to use the app to access it:
https://t.me/Kozak_David
Now, you can basically read about the contents of that channel in the Yahoo article. Here is the full transcript as per Google translate. The first post, in bold, was edited - more on that below.
David Kozák / David, [9. 12. 2023 20:03]
This will be my diary as I move towards schoolshooting.
What's interesting to me is the following:
- all the posts are written in Russian. Some say the writing is indistinguishable from that of a native speaker. Others say it feels like it's Czech run through Google translator. I cannot possibly judge this as I do not speak the language. The shooter was a Polish history major so there is some chance he dabbled also in Russian history and had learned to write and speak the language. I'm really not sure.
- the channel was created on December 9th 2023, i.e. weeks before the shooting. It has `Kozak_David` in the link URL which is immutable and connects the channel to the name of the shooter.
- the first post of the channel, and only this post, was edited on the day of the shooting at 16:55CET
This is 1-2 hours AFTER the shooter was reported dead by the police!
(it is not known what the post said before the edit)
- you cannot JOIN the channel so it is likely that Telegram admins have disabled the option
So, what do the great minds of Metabunk think? Psy-op? Accomplice? Currently, local "experts" are doubting the channel was created by the shooter - the main sticking points being the use of Russian and the "post-mortem" edit. They are basically suggesting a Russian psyop, but at the same time they concede the whole thing is perplexing. Because if we concede a psyop, how did the people behind it know a certain "David Kozak" will shoot up a school?
Many thanks and feel free to ask me further questions. I will answer if possible.
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