This is their names being put in. This is the Michigan state voter index showing us that they requested and returned absentee ballots. And this is their obituary.
Manic News
Saturday, November 28, 2020
This Fleccas Talks video has a weird mistake
Thursday, November 19, 2020
The guy behind @CJTruth is totally shredded
'This is for you, Q!' |
Who wants me to primary Dan Crenshaw in 2022? Either I will run or form a PAC to defeat this RINO https://t.co/hDCc18NoeM
— CJTRUTH (@cjtruth) November 19, 2020
Saturday, October 31, 2020
Buzzmag.live
The 35-year-old forward is asymptomatic and is most likely to miss Wednesday’s UEFA Nations League game against Sweden as he self-isolates.
The federation added that the rest of the Portugal team had undergone tests as a result of Ronaldo testing positive, but they claimed that all tested negative and would be available for the Sweden match.
The 35-year-old Juventus forward is asymptomatic and will miss Wednesday’s UEFA Nations League game against Sweden as he self-isolates.
The federation added that the rest of the Portugal squad had undergone tests as a result of Ronaldo’s positive, but that they had all tested negative and would be available for the Sweden match.
Saturday, October 3, 2020
Why is this Facebook voting ad so spooky?
A few nights ago I was watching TV when this jarring commercial aired:
The point is to encourage Facebook users to learn about the 2020 voting process. But the ad makes voting seem like it's some ominous endeavor. Here are some highlights:
0:00: Spooky piano music plays. An old woman stares out the window. A girl in a darkened room gets ready to blow out her birthday candles, possibly for the last time. A despondent man sits in the woods. A mailman has a concerned look on his face while holding an envelope. Some dude in a bathroom is stunned while reading a Facebook update about a dog.
0:17: A beleaguered mother of two tries to type something into her phone, and fails.
0:27: Close-up shot of a tongue.
0:33: The spooky piano music plays again. The elderly woman asks her friend, "You'll be safe, right?" (This is the LAST thing you'd ever want to ask someone in a horror movie.) Two women in masks douse a voting area with spray and goo.
0:49: The ghostly sound of a child's laughter is heard.
0:52: A guy goes "Whoo!" in the voting booth. (This isn't scary, but the guy seems obnoxious. I think he's wearing a fedora.)
0:56: A plug for the website: www.fb.com/votinginfocenter. This is the thing being advertised, believe it or not.
With all that said, the actual FB website seems useful, and I was able to check my registration status in about 45 seconds. However, I would have never thought to visit the website if I weren't poring over this spooky ad in preparation for writing a blog post. The whole presentation reminded me of that infamous ad for the electric car. You know, the one which made it seem like anyone who bought an electric car was doomed:
Friday, October 2, 2020
TheUnionJournal.com
Here is an article from September 4th, 2020, with the byline Turan Gafarli, titled: "Amazon deletes 20,000 reviews after evidence of profits for posts."
The text is copied entirely from an FT.com article from September 4th, 2020, written by David Lee, titled: "Amazon deletes 20,000 reviews after evidence of profits for posts"
The Union Journal has a Twitter account with 1,987 followers and a Facebook page with 495 likes. The Transparency section on the Facebook page lists the owner as Rottweiler Life(?) and it lists Egypt as the location of the three page managers. A few posts from The Union Journal have done well on Reddit; a submission in /r/WorldNews linking to the story about Amazon reviews received over 63,000 upvotes.
The articles on TheUnionJournal.com display AdSense ads and contain internet chum.
Thursday, October 1, 2020
TheDailyNY.com
Here's a news website which doesn't serve any purpose:
The About page says:
The Daily New York is an online newspaper that brings you all the latest updates regarding Politics, Business, Tech, Entertainment, Health, Sports, Style, Travel and More.
We are truth hunters and narrators. We are writers, planners and technologists, joined by a strategic vision to empower the world. We demonstrate the veracity of history as it unfurls and clarify what occurred, why it did, and what it means to you.
Our items and stages take you to the farthest corners of the world, and they carry the world to you, conveying materials and stories that improve your lives, your families and your networks.
We are accessible on a larger number of screens in a larger number of spots than some other news source. We represent greatness in our news coverage and our items. We are focused on serving you
You should've realized something was off by the time you reached "Our items and stages take you to the farthest corners of the world." The homepage has a Statue of Liberty graphic, and the header has links for "World," "Business," "Opinion," "Sports," etc...
The site has lots of articles, most which are two paragraphs long. The articles don't seem to be plagiarized, but the grammar is janky. The only byline I saw was "Chris Norton," and clicking on the byline takes you to: https://thedailyny.com/author/thedailynyofficial/. I opened some stories in an incognito tab, and there weren't any ads. The Contact page just contains a submission form. The domain was registered on July 24, 2020.
Here's a sample story titled "Serena Williams pulled out of French Open with Achilles injury ahead of her match against Tsvetana Pironkova": https://archive.is/npT3t
TheDailyNY has a Twitter account with 612 tweets and 2 followers, and a Facebook page with 2 "likes." This could all simply be some dude's personal project. I'm not really sure.
A reddit account named /u/Ali_Sands has been spamming the domain. Ali_Sands was also spamming another site a couple months ago called 365gamez.com, and he promoted some sort of "Song Quiz" app, which you can see in the Google Play store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.artonstudios.songquiz. It's from Arton Studios.
Saturday, September 12, 2020
PeaceData.net on Reddit
In addition to the main website (PeaceData.net), the network also consisted of social media accounts on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. One of the Twitter profiles was "Alice Schultz" (@AliceSc14113509), which was created on June 3, 2020. I looked on Reddit and a found a user named /u/AliceSchultz25, which is just about the fakest-sounding username you could come up with. Alice's account was created on June 1, 2020. She shared two links to PeaceData.net in /r/History and made another self-post in /r/PoliticalDiscussion (which likely contained a link to PeaceData.net). All three links were removed by the automod and none of them got any upvotes.
I went onto RedditSearch.io, and found 10 other submission to PeaceData.net. The most successful of these posts received 6 upvotes.
One post came from /u/Thisisntthespace, which is a shadowbanned account, so I can't see when the account was created.
So I assume /u/AliceSchultz25 is a sockpuppet, and perhaps /u/Thisisntthespace was a sockpuppet, too. None of the other submissions came from accounts that I would say are sockpuppets, but I'll give a summary for the sake of completeness.
Three posts came from /u/gregorjamessmith40, which is a four-month old account with a lot of posts about Turkey and Syria and the Middle East. He shares a lot of links to sites I haven't heard of, such as LibyaPolicy.com and TheArabWeekly.com.
Two posts came from /u/kavabean2, which is a 12-year-old account with 112,000 karma points. KavaBean2 is a moderator of /r/Labour and he shares links to a lot of left-wing sites such as PeoplesWorld.org and PeoplesDispatch.com.
One post came from /u/IntnsRed, which is a 14-year-old account with 400,000 karma points. IntnsRed is a moderator of /r/WorldPolitics2, and he shares links to a ton of websites, including The Guardian, Newsweek, and CounterPunch.
Two posts came from /u/captainwaffles, which is a 10-year-old account. CaptainWaffles also shares links to videos from Jimmy Dore and articles by Aaron Maté.
One post came from /u/human-no560, and he was sharing the link in order to highlight an example of Russian propaganda, so that doesn't really count.
Below are all the links:
AliceSchultz25:
https://www.reddit.com/r/history/comments/gugch5/war_crimes_committed_by_british_troops_peacedata/
https://www.reddit.com/r/history/comments/gugpx0/western_special_services_role_in_the/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalDiscussion/comments/gugynt/brazils_ailing_welfare_state_clashes_against/
Thisisntthespace:
https://www.reddit.com/r/inthenews/comments/h9h4my/indian_government_is_abusing_the_covid19_lockdown/
Gregorjamessmith40:
https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews2/comments/hi1sxx/how_erdogans_government_is_hiring_mercenaries_for/
https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/hi1rjz/how_erdogans_government_is_hiring_mercenaries_for/
https://www.reddit.com/r/socialmedianews/comments/hi1sls/how_erdogans_government_is_hiring_mercenaries_for/
KavaBean2:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Labour/comments/i7r06n/housing_how_coronavirus_has_exposed_this/
https://www.reddit.com/r/socialism/comments/i7r2f9/housing_how_coronavirus_has_exposed_this/
CaptainWaffles:
https://www.reddit.com/r/InformedTankie/comments/igr827/svetlana_tikhanovskayas_deleted_webpages_show/
https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageImperialism/comments/igr7tf/svetlana_tikhanovskayas_deleted_webpages_show/
IntnsRed:
https://www.reddit.com/r/worldpolitics2/comments/i4lb98/does_the_us_military_assassinate_journalists_the/
Human-no560:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ActiveMeasures/comments/ikzshh/this_is_the_website_the_russians_were_using_to/
Wednesday, July 8, 2020
People on Reddit think /u/MaxwellHill is Ghislaine Maxwell
However, he hasn't posted anything in the last seven days. This led people to speculate that /u/MaxwellHill is the online alter ego of Ghislaine Maxwell. The reasoning is that Ghislaine was arrested this past week, and the two of them have "Maxwell" in their names, so...maybe they're the same person?!
Hasharin also mentioned that MaxwellHill is a Malaysian man, and that the username is inspired by a place in Malaysia which is literally called Maxwell Hill:
Maxwellhill is a Malaysian man please stop this nonsense. I mod r/worldnews with him. Maxwell Hill is literally the name of a place in Malaysia it is not a reference to his name.— J D (@hasharin) July 8, 2020
Several Twitter users—most notably Joe Leonard (@maelfyn)—have shared speculation about MaxwellHill. Joe Leonard's tweet thread has 5,400 re-tweets and 16,400 likes so far. There have also been threads on 4Chan's /pol/ board filled with speculation.