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Tech NewsRon Watkins Is Done With Q and Has Moved On to Aliens
Ron Watkins, conspiracy-peddler extraordinaire, has found his next gig: leaking “disclosures” about extraterrestrials, Julian Assange-style. Yes, do yourself a favor and check out “AlienLeaks,” a new website Watkins just launched that he claims will be a destination for secret “never before seen” documents and disclosures involving extraterrestrials. In an insult to Assange and actual whistleblowers … Continued
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Tech NewsPoliticsHBO’s Q: Into the Storm Lays Out Its Case That 8Chan Admin Ron Watkins Is Q
The final episodes of HBO’sQ: Into the Storm aired on Sunday evening, and it’s put all its cards on the table. Director Cullen Hoback believes he’s unmasked Q, the unknown individual or individuals behind the sprawling, pro-Donald Trump QAnon conspiracy theory that asserts the Democratic Party and Hollywood are ruled by an Illuminati-style cabal of … Continued
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Tech NewsPoliticsYour Travel Guide to the Rudderless Right-Wing Web After Trump
Moving into 2021 and forward, conservatives angry about “cancel culture,” censorship, shadowbans, or the attention of the FBI have a rich array of social destinations to choose from. We’ve prepped a travel guide for the unwitting observer who might be thinking of checking any of these conspicuous and lesser-known internet hellholes out—whether it’s to keep … Continued
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Tech NewsParler’s Back With a New Interim CEO
Parler executives have been insisting that the social network would be up any day now. Well, today is apparently the day. After more than a month offline, Parler has risen from the dead, reappearing with a new interim CEO. In a press release, the company announced that its new leader is Mark Meckler, co-founder of … Continued
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Tech NewsPrivacy & SecurityHouse Oversight Committee Asks FBI to Investigate Parler
The chairwoman of the House Oversight Committee has asked the FBI to investigate Parler, the largely unmoderated conservative social media hellhole implicated as one of the sites involved in organizing the Jan. 6 riots at the Capitol. In a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY) asked the agency to examine … Continued
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Tech NewsPoliticsHere’s How QAnon Reacted as They Realized ‘The Storm’ Isn’t Happening
QAnon is not going away. But it’s reeling in abject confusion and despair after Joe Biden took office on Wednesday without Donald Trump leading an army of federal agents and National Guardsmen to storm the inauguration and arrest the entire leadership of the Democratic Party. QAnon managed to successfully unite large swathes of the conspiracy … Continued
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Tech NewsParler’s Back from the Dead With a Domain Registered to Epik, Home to Gab and Daily Stormer
Parler came back online Sunday with a defiant message to the social network’s “lovers and haters.” Its new host appears to be Epik, a domain name registrar that has harbored other deplatformed cesspools like Gab, the Daily Stormer, and 8kun predecessor’s 8chan, thus cementing Parler, the self-proclaimed “world’s premier free speech platform,” in the online … Continued
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Tech NewsChristchurch Terrorist Abused Steroids and Donated Money to Far-Right YouTubers
Brenton Tarrant, the anti-Muslim terrorist who killed 51 people during two attacks in Christchurch, New Zealand in 2019, abused steroids and donated money to far-right websites and YouTube personalities like Stefan Molyneux, according to a new report released by the New Zealand government. The 810-page report also says Tarrant claimed YouTube was a “significant source … Continued
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Tech NewsPoliticsGreat, We’re at the ‘8kun’s Admin Is an Election Security Expert’ Stage of This Bullshit
Since his loss in the Nov. 3 elections, Donald Trump has largely dipped out of public view and occupied his time in some gold-plated panic room, issuing a ridiculous series of tweets claiming victory in various states and ordering his cartoon parody of a campaign legal team to sally forth and step on rakes while … Continued
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Tech NewsWait… Did Ron Watkins Just Rat His Dad Out as Q?
There’s been a mass exodus of conservatives from Twitter and Facebook amid complaints of censorship and “free speech” dog-whistling in the wake of the 2020 presidential election. Many have found a new home on Parler, a platform founded in 2018 and reportedly backed by Trump donors that sells itself as “unbiased social media.” On Sunday, … Continued
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Tech NewsPoliticsTrump Kisses QAnon Right on Its Big Wet Mouth
Donald Trump went there on Wednesday morning and endorsed a crank conspiracy theorist who recently won the GOP primaries for Georgia’s 14th Congressional District, calling her a “future Republican Star” and a “a real WINNER!” Construction executive Marjorie Taylor Greene ran a fanatically pro-Trump campaign that ended with her crushing her closest challenger, neurosurgeon John … Continued
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Tech NewsCrimeFounder of 8Chan Faces Prison Time in the Philippines for Calling Current Owner ‘Senile’
Frederick Brennan, the founder of the fringe 8chan discussion board that disbanded after users on its far-right /pol/ subforum were linked to multiple mass shootings, could face arrest in the Philippines thanks to criminal libel charges brought by the site’s current owner, Jim Watkins. Filipino news source Rappler reported on Thursday that Watkins—who remained largely … Continued
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