Before the next election, you might want to find a better way to poll anyone under the age of 30 since they would rather pick up a pinless grenade than a call from an unknown number.
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Seen a lot of Law & Order, haven't seen a twist as good as "Alex Jones' lawyers accidentally sent Sandy Hook parents' lawyers the entire contents of his phone and his long-hidden financials, but they waited 12 days to let him lie" in my life. Just an absolutely wild day.
Wow. Sandy Hook parents' lawyer is revealing that Alex Jones' lawyers sent him the contents of Jones' phone BY MISTAKE.
"12 days ago, your attorneys messed up and sent me a digital copy of every text" Jones has sent for years.
"You know what perjury is?" the lawyer asks.
Like I always say with content moderation, every social media site owner who is “pro free speech” meets their line eventually.
For 4chan, it was anime child porn. For Facebook and YouTube, it was white nationalist terror. For Elon, it was people making fun of him.
Everybody paying attention now?
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TRUMP: "We are going to win four more years. And then after that we'll go for another four years, because they spied on my campaign. We should get a redo of four years."
Alex Jones' lawyers were just now arguing for a mistrial because they accidentally sent the Sandy Hook family lawyers the entire contents of Jones' phone.
Judge denies the motion.
Verdict: Alex Jones owes $45.2 million more to Sandy Hook in punitive damages. That's on top of $4.1 million in compensatory.
That's $49.3 million to two Sandy Hook families. Two more trials after this.
Unanimous verdict (what's required for punitive damages).
Journalists who cover Elon Musk have been suspended on Twitter tonight: O'Sullivan from CNN, Aaron Rupar and the Washington Post's .
Rupar tells me he has "no idea" why it happened.
It's been five hours and I can't stop thinking about the president wishing Ghislaine Maxwell well. I feel like that's the only thing anybody should be talking about right now. Am I nuts?
I've been covering bad parts of the internet for long time now.
For years, there was one site extremist researchers warned me not to cover because publicizing it would be dangerous.
But it's time people know KiwiFarms—and how they're chasing political enemies around the world.
Okay everybody it's Zero Hour for this website, post your favorite tweets and give them a little kiss goodbye.
Humiliating.
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Snoop & Eminem performing at MTV VMAs in @OthersideMeta and using their @BoredApeYC IP
I am begging you, from the bottom of my heart, to tell me what you think is closed.
Sandy Hook lawyer's final statement: "[Alex Jones] is worth almost $270 million that we know of. Please take an amount that punishes him, and an amount that ensures he never does this again."
Jury now about to head back into deliberations.
Best guess: Twitter tried to do something stupid with their API, they messed it up in a way that will take days, so Elon is doing this new “you can only read 600 posts a day” thing as a cover, and he’ll say “after hearing your feedback, we’ve reversed the policy” when it’s fixed.
This InfoWars interview with Kanye West is getting so thoroughly antisemitic that even Alex Jones is pushing back, after West has spent the last few minutes accusing Jews of being pedophiles. "I think most Jews are great people," Jones says. "But I agree there's a Jewish mafia."
Hard to find a purer distillation of evil than QAnon people who have spent all day attacking Chrissy Teigen after losing her baby.
I am blocked by a man named CatTurd2 on the internet, making it considerably harder for me to figure out the business strategy of the richest man in the world.
I like how we're supposed to believe these are both written by the same guy, back to back.
Quick thread:
I want you all to meet Vladimir Bondarenko.
He’s a blogger from Kiev who really hates the Ukrainian government.
He also doesn’t exist, according to Facebook.
He’s an invention of a Russian troll farm targeting Ukraine. His face was made by AI.
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Am I losing my mind? Is this not a gigantic deal? He's either casually admitting to using federal agents to interfere in a state election or lying about it for some equally inexplicable reason, right? Am I reading this wrong or is this a five-alarmer for the DOJ?
This is true. Here's Conan spinning his wedding ring during the 2007 writers' strike just to fill airtime. It was like this for months.
NBC was lucky that Conan is the GOAT, but it's impossible to explain to Gen Z how bad the content will get if there's another one.
I love the 6'8", 70-year-old founder of AriZona Iced Tea who refuses to be a "bread guy" or "gas guy" and is keeping the price of a can at 99 cents, despite making a bit less.
latimes.com/business/story
Breaking: Absolutely astronomical figures in this InfoWars lawsuit out of Connecticut.
Alex Jones owes $229 million to just the first three plaintiffs, all family members of Sandy Hook victims.
There are nine more plaintiffs to go.
Great face, great name, great beard, great vibe. twitter.com/41Strange/stat
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So weird how the people who think an anonymous government insider on 8chan is revealing Donald Trump is saving the world from a baby eating cabal are also the people who refuse to believe The Atlantic's anonymous sources telling a story that involves zero magic or time travel.
Unbelievable.
Alex Jones' lawyer just closed his argument in the Sandy Hook defamation case with German pastor Martin Niemöller's "First they came for the socialists... Then they came for the Jews..." prose poem.
Again, this was Alex Jones' lawyer.
Run back Facebook did today.
They bought a story in a publication, pretended it wasn’t sponsored, their COO posted it, then when they got caught, they denied knowing anything about it.
And what was that ad/story about?
Their commitment to stopping disinformation.
Incredible.
Nancy Pelosi got a haircut and it was the only news on Facebook for two full days.
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White House chief of staff Mark Meadows hosted a wedding with 70 guests for his daughter in Atlanta this May, despite a statewide order and city of Atlanta guidelines that banned gatherings of more than 10 people.
Per @1PatriciaMurphy @bluestein:
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Folks, Elon Musk has invented Verification.
Scoop, story incoming:
Facebook groups tied to American offshoots of Canada’s “Trucker Convoy” are being run by fake accounts tied to content mills from Vietnam, Bangladesh, Romania and several other countries, the company confirmed to NBC News on Friday.
This wound up being a lie.
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"If anyone, including a politician, is saying things that can cause, that is calling for violence or could risk imminent physical harm.... we will take that content down."
Zuckerberg told @AOC a few months ago.
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Breaking: A Connecticut court rules Alex Jones owes Sandy Hook victims over $1 billion.
Hi. Grew up in Salem.
The Salem Witch Trials isn't a play.
It's The Crucible.
The people burning the witches in it were the bad guys. twitter.com/JackPosobiec/s
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My least favorite part of the Constitution is the one that allows the president's son-in-law to cancel elections, so I'm glad we're asking him about it.
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Jared Kushner on whether the 2020 election will be held as scheduled: “I’m not sure I can commit one way or the other, but right now that’s the plan.” time.com/5835342/jared-
Can't stress how wild the ivermectin Facebook groups have become. So many people insisting to each other to never go to an ER, in part because they might not get ivermectin, but sometimes because they fear nurses are killing them on purpose "for the insurance money."
His gravest miscalculation was he believed the people with opinions were bots and the bots who loved only Elon and crypto were people.
Not even gonna subject the civilian internet to what's happening on the incel forums today. Probably the most horrific I've ever seen them.
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Sandy Hook parents' lawyer is now asking Jones about the times he has emailed about Sandy Hook over the last several years, despite testifying under oath he couldn't find any emails about Sandy Hook. There are apparently a lot of them. One is on a screen right now.
Silicon Valley billionaires: Take one liberal arts class. One. Any single one. I am begging you.
I’m at the pro-Trump protest put on by the NY Young Republicans Club. Not a joke, there are more reporters here than Trump supporters.
This was supposed to be the big one.
When your extremist forum gets so obsessed with owning the libs they become them.
A thing I think about a lot is how Facebook has never suffered a single consequence at any point in any way whatsoever.
I challenge Michael Jordan to a debate on how to score despite a double team. If he does not accept my challenge, I am right about all basketball things, and Michael Jordan is wrong. This is legally binding, because I said it on a podcast.
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Sandy Hook parents' lawyer on a hot mic during a recess: "You know what nobody's thought about yet? What happens when that phone goes to law enforcement."
It appears President Trump tried to set up one of the nicest old ladies in Georgia as a patsy for an election crime she did not commit.
BREAKING: Facebook bans QAnon across its platforms
Facebook "will remove Facebook Pages, Groups and Instagram accounts for representing QAnon" like any other militarized social movement, militia or terror group.
When you discover Rage Against the Machine songs have words in them.
I think it's time we start covering Trumpism for what it is now.
It's no longer a political movement. It's a violent fairytale of revenge on political enemies.
Feds could've found a body in those Mar a Lago boxes and followers wouldn't care. It's about retribution, not facts.
All of this great vaccine news is making me so excited for the summer when everyone reveals the unique way they are now socially broken. Will I sporadically talk like Dracula around friends because I’ve been doing that to the cat for some unknown reason? You bet.
The people getting prescriptions for ivermectin instead of the vaccine because of Big Pharma better not find out who's making that ivermectin.
Talking to a couple of Twitter employees just now who learned they don't work there anymore when their email stopped working. I have never talked to people more excited to get laid off in my entire life.
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I am moving to a shack in the forest and am no longer participating in society.
Anybody else getting waves of dread that don't really go away, but just get temporarily patted down by slightly noisier stimuli (a loud thing on the TV, a particularly funny tweet, a phone call)?
For some reason, QAnon people are refusing to take their dream scenario coming true — a sitting congressman being investigated for child trafficking — at face value. They love Gaetz’s inscrutable double agent story because it sounds like 5D chess.
By now, you've seen some of these "tailgate parties," where Trump supporters hang around ballot drop boxes standing watch for "mules," some in tactical gear.
My colleague and I spent the week finding out the origin of this plan.
We found it. It was Truth Social.
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Even Jones is stunned by the fact Sandy Hook parents seem to have his emails. Jones just called it their lawyers' "Perry Mason moment." It's shocking.
K-Pop stans from TikTok are flooding the #MillionMAGAMarch hashtag with pictures of pancakes. It's basically unusable right now.
appears to have kicked it off.
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These texts and emails are FINALLY revealing financials behind Infowars.
Some days in 2018, InfoWars was making $800,000 a day.
"Well after your deplatforming, your numbers keep getting better," Sandy Hook parents' lawyer says.
If they keep that up, that's ~$300 mill. a year.
New from me + + :
A company called “Surefire Intelligence” has ties to this Mueller smear.
Jacob Wohl denied having ties to Surefire.
Surefire’s official phone number redirects to a voicemail box registered to Jacob's mom.
Elon's cousin James Musk held an emergency, "high urgency" meeting at Twitter after the Super Bowl because Elon's tweets performed worse than Joe Biden's.
Then Twitter had engineers rush to change Twitter's algorithm to ensure Elon received "previously unheard-of promotion."
Jimmy Buffett was 29 when he recorded Margaritaville. Dude was born retired.
A quick thread:
A lot of people have asked me this week: Where did this ivermectin obsession come from? Who could possibly benefit from it?
Most importantly, why did my antivaxx aunt start eating horse goo from the tractor store?
It’s complicated, but here are some answers.
Elon Musk paid $44 billion to discover what we already knew: content moderation is messy and involves whole teams of people with a range of viewpoints trying to appease different political factions.
He then gave “leaks” to a Substack Man to present it as a blockbuster.
This was already in testing at the company awaiting a rollout. He's taking credit here for a bunch of work that some employees did before he laid them off.
Best parallel I can think of is if we tried to invade Canada because we thought Vancouver was basically ours, the entire US military got tied up in the forest, then Blackwater turned on us and started heading towards DC overnight, except Blackwater was financed by Rachael Ray.
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Judge instructing the jury on the entire contents of Alex Jones' phone, which was accidentally handed over from Jones' lawyers to the Sandy Hook parents' lawyers:
"What we do know is that it was not properly turned over when it should have been."
Ted Cruz just fell for Twitter's oldest hoax: the shark on the highway.
Extremist forums like TheDonald/4chan are turning on the president after that video. They're extremely upset at him, Lin Wood, and Q.
This appears to be the moment they realized there was no grand plan to win back the election.
This may not be permanent, but they feel betrayed.
It is crazy how the antivaxx just don’t give up. They promised mass extinction events, widespread infertility, mutant babies. None of it happened and they’re still duping some of the richest, most gullible men on earth.
Ivermectin provides full protection against the NFC Championship Game.
If you know someone who was suspended tonight for impersonating someone OTHER than Elon Musk, my DMs are open.
Stop doing this. You could be the ghost of Freddie Mercury and I would still try to pop open the emergency exits.
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Ah yes, I remember that popular chant at Trump rallies. "Lock Nobody Up!" they yelled, famously.
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Sean Hannity actually just said this about Pelosi thinking Trump should be locked up: "She wants a political opponent locked up, in prison? That happens in Banana Republics. Beyond despicable behavior"
I talked this morning about an inflection point in this country right now, specifically for reporters:
What are you more afraid of? Being on Breitbart for saying that trans people deserve to be alive?
Or are you more afraid of waking up to the news of more dead people?
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Just want to add that Alex Jones' latent cough came back in full force when his own texts, which he didn't know the Sandy Hook parents' lawyers had access to, appeared on a screen in the court room and he was asked to read one.
Imagine throwing it all away to do PR work for the richest person in the world. Humiliating shit.
Mark Zuckerberg has a wide open lane for a second act if he creates something called InstaFeed and the first post is "We won't read your DMs, we'll make certain Joe Biden is Joe Biden and Nintendo is Nintendo AND I won't post homophobic conspiracy theories." But he's gotta hurry.
Incredible. Fox News isn't showing the video of the actual violence. It's too damning. They're showing panned out shots of Congresspeople watching it.
They really don't think their viewership can handle the truth of what happened on January 6th.
A quick thread on extremists targeting Pride and drag queen events:
You’re not imagining it. Threats against these communities are increasing.
Targeted threats canceled Pride events and forced people out of their homes in the last week.
It's part of a new anti-trans "machine."
Employees in Twitter just got an email from their bosses saying layoffs are coming tomorrow.
Those who are staying will get a note tomorrow in their work email. Those who are let go will get an email sent to their personal address.
Slot machine-style layoffs.