QAnon

Here’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…

Politics Tom McKay Jan 20

Facebook Promised to Stop Promoting Political Groups, You’ll Never Believe What Happened Next

Surprise! Despite repeated assurances from Facebook and its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, that the company would stop recommending all “political and social issue groups” in order to slow down misinformation and coordinated political violence, it didn’t really do that. The Markup reported on Tuesday that while Zuckerberg testified to Congress in October 2020 that the cessation of…

Social Media Tom McKay Jan 19

Leaked Parler Data Points to Users at Police Stations, U.S. Military Bases

Location data gleaned from thousands of videos posted on the social network Parler and archived days before Amazon restricted access to the app reveal its users included on-duty police officers across the U.S. and U.S. service members stationed at home and abroad. The presence on Parler of active military and police raises concerns, experts said,…

Tech News Dell Cameron & Dhruv Mehrotra Jan 15

Here Are All the Trump Sycophants Who Got Banned From Social Media After the Capitol Riot

Last week, Donald Trump riled up a mob of his supporters to storm the U.S. Capitol while members of Congress were voting to certify the results of the 2020 elections—a de facto act of sedition that failed to bring about his fantasized coup and resulted in five deaths. As a reward for his efforts, social…

Internet Tom McKay Jan 12

Parler Forced Offline After Amazon Pulls Hosting Services

Parler has gone offline after Amazon made good on its promise to drop the controversial social media site from its AWS web hosting services. Amazon pulled the plug at 11:59 p.m. Pacific time, saying that Parler wasn’t properly moderating its content and the violence being called for on the site posed “a very real risk…

Tech News Matt Novak Jan 11

Twitter Cracks Down on Qanon Accounts for Role in Capitol Riot

Twitter removed the accounts of a number of high-profile supporters of the Qanon conspiracy theory this Friday after their alleged role in spurring on the violent, pro-Trump insurgency at the U.S. Capitol building Thursday. Among the purged were former Trump National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, who not only has shown a willingness to Tweet out…

Tech News Lucas Ropek Jan 8

American Airlines Bans Alcohol on Flights Out of D.C. After Trump Loyalists Attempt Coup

American Airlines announced early Thursday that it would no longer be serving alcohol on flights out of Washington D.C., after videos went viral of passengers being verbally abusive on flights into Washington for President Trump’s neo-fascist rally. The alcohol ban is one of many precautionary measures being taken by the airline after loyalists to Trump…

Tech News Matt Novak Jan 7

Researchers Use AI to Separate Conspiracy From Fact

Researchers at UCLA have created a model to distinguish conspiracy theories from actual conspiracies which will possibly allow robots to differentiate between things like Pizzagate and Bridgegate in the future. The project, created by Timothy R. Tangherlini, Shadi Shahsavari, Behnam Shahbazi, Ehsan Ebrahimzadeh, and Vwani Roychowdhury, analyzes multiple narratives including “user-generated” narratives like Pizzagate, Qanon,…

Tech News John Biggs Jan 6

NPR Poll Finds That a Minority of Americans Fully Disbelieve QAnon Conspiracies

This sounds about right: As of Dec. 30, 2020, well over a third of Americans believe wild conspiracy theories designed to sow fear and societal collapse. A poll from NPR and the market research company Ipsos found that a solid 40% of Americans believe that covid-19 was created in a lab in China, 37% are…

Tech News Whitney Kimball Dec 30

Far-Right Reddit Clone Voat Has Shut Down, for Real This Time

Voat, the abhorrent Reddit clone that became a home for toxic communities and conspiracy theories like QAnon, has shut down. Although the site has claimed to be closing before, this time it appears to be legit. When you type in its address in your browser, you are not able to access the site, and instead…

Tech News Jody Serrano Dec 26

What the EPA Has in Common With Pornographers

It’s been a few weeks since our last edition of Hellfeed, and in the meantime, things on the feed have gotten somewhat closer to baseline dispiriting: While the president’s efforts to overturn the election results have degenerated from coup attempt to dangerous levels of cringe, social media firms are eager to return to pretending everything…

Internet Tom McKay Dec 11

Great, 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…

Politics Tom McKay Nov 19

Wait… 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,…

Tech News Alyse Stanley Nov 15

QAnon-Believer Marjorie Taylor Greene Will Become a Member of Congress

Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Donald Trump-endorsed Republican nominee for Congress in Georgia’s 14th district and noted QAnon conspiracy theorist, has won her race for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. Although Greene was the favored candidate in the race for Georgia’s 14th Congressional district from the start, the outcome was all but guaranteed…

Politics Brianna Provenzano Nov 3

Passwords of Florida County Election Officials Temporarily Exposed

Login credentials belonging to several Martin County, Florida, election officials were inadvertently exposed by what an election security researcher says was an unsecured backup database that had likely been publicly accessible since 2017. The California-based security firm UpGuard said Thursday that more than 1,200 accounts assigned to county officials—at least six of which were assigned…

Privacy & Security Dell Cameron Oct 30

Patreon Becomes the Latest Online Platform to Boot Off QAnon Stans

Patreon has become the latest online platform to give QAnon conspiracy theorists the boot. Please excuse me while I play the world’s smallest violin. “Going forward, creator accounts that advance disinformation promoting the QAnon conspiracy theory will no longer be supported on Patreon,” the company said in a blog post announcing its updated policies this…

Tech News Alyse Stanley Oct 24

Facebook Says a ‘Glitch’ Redirected Users to a QAnon Primer

Facebook users who were not searching for information on QAnon were redirected to an extensive primer on the conspiracy theory due to a “glitch” in a system designed to fight it, according to Facebook. The company tweeted on Wednesday that its “Redirect Initiative”—which is supposed to direct Facebook users that appear to be on the…

Social Media Tom McKay Oct 22

Q’s Last Haven Briefly Shut by Internet Providers

The last haven for “real” Qdrops, 8kun (previously called 8chan), briefly went down Sunday night after a security researcher called the head of CNServers, the anti-denial-of-service provider that controversial site uses to stay online. CNServers quickly pulled their support for the message board, resulting in a vanishingly brief outage. The site currently runs on a…

Tech News John Biggs Oct 19

YouTube Bans QAnon, With a Catch

Over the last couple of weeks, social media networks have finally enacted a glutof the content moderation policies that critics have spent years demanding. The latest crackdown comes from YouTube, which announced on Thursday that the ban hammer is dropping on QAnon videos—with caveats, of course. While Facebook groups were seen as a digital home…

Tech News Rhett Jones Oct 15

QAnon-Obsessed CBP Officer Arrested After Sending ‘Numerous’ Threats to Superior

An agent for Customs and Border Protection in New Jersey, Alberto Almeida, was arrested and is facing charges after he allegedly sent threatening messages accusing a senior CBP official of child trafficking and calling for his extrajudicial execution, the Daily Beast reported on Wednesday. According to a criminal complaint filed by a special agent with…

Crime Tom McKay Oct 7

Here’s How QAnon Reacted as They Realized ‘The Storm’ Isn’t Happening

Facebook Promised to Stop Promoting Political Groups, You’ll Never Believe What Happened Next

Leaked Parler Data Points to Users at Police Stations, U.S. Military Bases

Here Are All the Trump Sycophants Who Got Banned From Social Media After the Capitol Riot

Parler Forced Offline After Amazon Pulls Hosting Services

Twitter Cracks Down on Qanon Accounts for Role in Capitol Riot

American Airlines Bans Alcohol on Flights Out of D.C. After Trump Loyalists Attempt Coup

Researchers Use AI to Separate Conspiracy From Fact

NPR Poll Finds That a Minority of Americans Fully Disbelieve QAnon Conspiracies

Far-Right Reddit Clone Voat Has Shut Down, for Real This Time

What the EPA Has in Common With Pornographers

Great, We’re at the ‘8kun’s Admin Is an Election Security Expert’ Stage of This Bullshit

Wait… Did Ron Watkins Just Rat His Dad Out as Q?

QAnon-Believer Marjorie Taylor Greene Will Become a Member of Congress

Passwords of Florida County Election Officials Temporarily Exposed

Patreon Becomes the Latest Online Platform to Boot Off QAnon Stans

Facebook Says a ‘Glitch’ Redirected Users to a QAnon Primer

Q’s Last Haven Briefly Shut by Internet Providers

YouTube Bans QAnon, With a Catch

QAnon-Obsessed CBP Officer Arrested After Sending ‘Numerous’ Threats to Superior

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