NEW: Inside a Nazi homeschooling group run by the Lawrences, a couple from Upper Sandusky, OH, and parents of four young children.
The group has almost 2,500 member and the founders say its aim is "making sure that children become wonderful Nazis”
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Since Chaya Raichik was outed as
@libsoftiktok
a year ago, her attacks on the LGBTQ community have increased.
As a result she's
• Got millions of new followers
• Dined with Trump
• Earned $$$ on Substack
• Wrote a book
& now she's speaking at
#CPAC
Last week a poster on Reddit said they were a Parkland school shooting survivor whose dad had fallen down the QAnon rabbit hole and now believed the shooting was a hoax.
A lot of people on Reddit — and here — said it was probably a fake post.
It wasn't
On Dec. 21, Tausha Haight filed for divorce from her husband Michael Haight.
On Dec. 27 he was served with divorce papers.
Yesterday, police in Utah found Tausha, her mother, and her five children all shot dead by their father, who then killed himself.
The findings of a study on young Americans' knowledge of the
#Holocaust
are terrifying:
• 23% say it’s a myth/exaggerated
• 10% don’t think it happened
• 12% never heard of it
• 11% think Jews were responsible
• 63% are unaware 6M Jews were killed
Exclusive from me:
The judge who signed the Trump search warrant is facing violent threats from far-right extremists, including some targeting his children.
"I see a rope around his neck,” one wrote, under a post listing the judge's home address
Here's the language Trump supporters are using ahead of tomorrow's protest in Miami:
• "MAGA will make Waco look like a tea party"
• "Legally I will also be armed, well armed"
• "Just buying more ammo"
• "I want blood. I want fucking blood"
Last week, researchers revealed the identity of the racist, antisemitic, and homophobic cartoonist known as
#stonetoss
Stonetoss appealed to
@elonmusk
to ban the researcher's account.
Musk complied—then locked the accounts of others sharing the details
New from me:
The Ohio Department of Education has told me it's aware of the neo Nazi homeschooling network being run by a couple in Upper Sandusky and is now investigating it for "compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements."
Dominion CEO John Poulos says the company is looking at further lawsuits, including against Trump.
“Today is the first step to restore our good name and faith in elections. We intend to pursue justice vigorously to its rightful end.”
As the QAnon Meme Queen, Deborah Sullivan has for years been fighting a non-existent cabal of pedophiles.
But when her own son was convicted of repeatedly abusing his own stepdaughter, Sullivan defended him, blasting the 12yr old girl "a horrible liar."
It has been quite a week in QAnon world....so if you're sitting down to Thanksgiving dinner today, it might be good to know just what your crazy uncle from Florida is talking about.
Here's a short 🧵...
Michael Flynn’s family is suing CNN over a report showing them reciting the QAnon oath.
The Flynns' defence is that they were reciting a family motto that just happens to be identical to the QAnon oath.
What are the chances…
Katja Lawrence said last year that she founded the group because she was "having a rough time finding Nazi-approved school material for [her] homeschool children"
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After the publication of our investigation into Elon Musk blocking researchers for outing neo-Nazi cartoonist Stonetoss, X has updated its privacy policies to specifically prohibit people sharing "the identity of an anonymous user"
"Ireland is on the brink of civil war,” — Nick Fuentes
"Ireland is a powder keg" — Steve Bannon
"Irish population is being replaced by people from the third world." - Tucker Carlson
Why is American's far-right boosting calls for civil war in Ireland?
Update:
Since we published this story yesterday, YouTube has now responded to say it has removed one of the accounts we flagged "for circumventing our terms of service by creating a new channel following a previous termination." 1/5
Katja shares Nazi-related educational resources, as well as sample schedules and lesson plans.
Parents in the group chat, which was shut down last week, also pitch in with resources, such as: "10 Reasons Why Hitler Was One of The Good Guys”
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Another worrying aspect of the group is how it is encouraging members to meet up with like-minded people in real life, acting as a recruiting platforms for white supremacist groups like The Right Stuff, Patriot Front and the National Justice League
5/6
Irish Garda Commissioner Drew Harris this morning said that there's no way when the stabbing happened they "could have anticipated" the
#DublinRiots
It was the first thing I expected when I heard about the stabbing.
Anyone paying attention knew this was coming.
A short 🧵
Katja urges members to join so-called "pool parties" to socialize with like-minded people.
“There is a huge network of people like us. We joined a pool party & our children now play with other white children where they can speak & play freely."
6/6
Katja shared a picture of a Führer Cake she baked the kids to celebrate Hitler's birthday, adding that she had also baked a lot of swastika items.
One chilling audio clip she shared featured her kids shouting "Sieg Heil"
4/6
Just an update on
#CPACHungary
. As far as I can tell, no journalists from any US media outlet have been allowed entry to the event. Reporters from
@voxdotcom
@RollingStone
and
@NewYorker
along with myself were all denied entry this morning.
Impressed by this woman holding a sign saying "Liar Cheater Loser" outside the Trump trial this morning who was shouting down Laura Loomer (who was using a bullhorn) and others
Doug Kuzma, a right-wing, QAnon, anti-vax podcaster, got sick after attending a conspiracy conference in Dallas.
When someone urged him to get tested he replied:
"I’ll die at the house before I go to the hospital.”
On Monday he died from COVID
"I love you Donald Trump"
The Navy vet who rammed a FBI field office with an SUV on Monday posted this and other pro-Trump messages, QAnon conspiracies, and claims he wanted to join a militia in social accounts we exclusively revealed here:
Exclusive: Members of far-right forums are threatening violence against teachers & school officials they see as "groomers."
One member of even posted the address of a Connecticut superintendent and urged people to "execute her"
A PR company called Fazze, claiming to be UK-based, contacted YouTubers in France & Germany offering them a lot of money on behalf of an anonymous client, to say the Pfizer & Astra-Zeneca vaccines are dangerous.
Turns out the agency is based in Moscow...
A 66-year-old Welsh woman created and promoted a baseless conspiracy that her pregnancy was fake in 2018.
She was banned from Twitter, but now, as the Netfix series has reinvigorated the conspiracy, Elon Musk reinstated her Twitter account
Reaction to the QAnon-JFK cult in Dallas has been mainly pointing & laughing.
But this cult is tearing families apart, and over the weekend it took an extremely worrying turn when they start talking about "experiencing physical death" to find the truth
Conor McGregor has been stoking his fanbase of mostly young Irish males for a long time with conspiracies and anti-immigrant bullshit.
This is what he tweeted just last night
#dublinriots
Looks like Elon Musk has now disabled Twitter Spaces for everyone. I'm sure it had NOTHING to do with this very awkward interaction Musk had with journalists he just banned on a Spaces last night.....
Last month,
@keffals
traveled over 3,300 miles from her home in Canada to Belfast to try and get away from those threatening her safety. It didn't work.
I traveled to Belfast to speak to her &
@ellenfromnowon
about their battle to bring down Kiwi Farms
Anti-trans activist Caroline Farrow portrayed her arrest as an aggressive response to "some insulting messages on the internet”
She failed to mention she was arrested for doxing trans woman
@flyinglawyer73
who this week received an arson threat...
On Sept. 13 Dolores Cahill rang Una McCarron & convinced her to take her husband Joe out of the hospital, promising support to help him recover from COVID.
The help never arrived.
Two days later he was back in hospital.
A week later, he was dead.
Facebook is not only allowing right-wing militias to spread anti-vaxxer misinformation on its platform, it's even labelling some of the groups admins as "experts"
New from me:
The man accused of ramming his SUV into the FBI headquarters in Atlanta on Monday shared QAnon conspiracies online and said he was looking to join a "good militia"
Elon Musk began the week by reviving the Pizzagate conspiracy, a precursor to QAnon that many within the movement still believe to be true, even though it was thoroughly debunked
And finally, to round things off with a bang, Musk, referencing a letter sent to OpenAI's board about the threat from an AI program called Q*, posted the phrase Q*Anon.
Obviously Q world lost its collective mind....
Happy Thanksgiving everyone
The Arizona Audit has become so corrupted by disinformation that Cyber Ninjas has had to come out with a statement claiming a "false report" being shared by prominent Trump supporters...is fake.
Then a new Q website popped up with a countdown clock that runs out next week, featuring the well-known QAnon phrase "Nothing can stop what is coming"
Even though they have no idea what it means, Q people are getting VERY excited about what will happen...
On Wednesday, about 50 members of the QAnon offshoot that believes JFK and his son are going to/have come back to life gathered once again in Dallas to commemorate the 60th anniversary of when JFK was assassinated (or maybe wasn't?)
A county in Iowa had two candidates to oversee elections in the county:
• A man with no experience running elections but is a QAnon booster, 9/11 truther and election denier.
• A woman with years of experience running elections.
Guess who they chose.
Lots of unvaxxed people complained of being sick after attending a conspiracy conference in Dallas this month.
But of course, it wasn't COVID. It was anthrax 🙄
Robert David Steele, a former CIA officer-turned-conspiracy theorist, claimed to be the first person to call COVID19 a hoax.
Sadly, over the weekend he died from COVID-19
OpenVAERS is a website that is presenting unverified federal data about vaccine deaths as fact.
It's become wildly popular in anti-vaxxer communities.
Now, thanks to research from
@LogicallyAI
, we can exclusively reveal who's running it
If you have a friend or family member who is a QAnon believer then today is probably the best opportunity you will get to try and start the process of getting them out.
Here are some tips from experts on how to do that:
How did Bannon and Carlson, two of the biggest MAGA influencers, end up boosting a conspiracy that Ireland's government is replacing its population with "people from the third world"?
The answer is Keith Woods (a Roscommon native whose real name is Keith O'Brien)
A 🧵...
One person employed by Cyber Ninjas as a "floor manager" for the
#ArizonaAudit
earned $125/hour.
Over the course of just 12 days in May, they earned over $20,000.
But this is not a grift, no way....
Lin Wood is urging his 800K QAnon-supporting followers to dig up dirt on the Georgia officials trying to disbar him.
On Saturday he posted the names and addresses of those officials on his Telegram channel…
When I asked Twitter why it had locked the accounts
@benarroch_joe
told me it was for a breach of Twitter's policy "outing the identity of an anonymous user.”
Except no such policy exists within Twitter's own TOS
After Trump posted a picture of himself wearing a Q pin overlaid with the words: The Storm is Coming" to Truth Social on Monday night, one QAnon supporter asked:
“How much more obvious can it get?”
The answer is, not much...
The threats are being posted in the same forums and message boards where violent threats were made in the lead-up to the Capitol riots.
The FBI and US Marshals service declined to comment on the threats facing the judge.
Around 7am on March 3, the hugely popular ivermectin influencer Danny Lemoi posted this message to his 135,000 followers:
“HAPPY FRIDAY ALL YOU POISONOUS HORSE PASTE EATING SURVIVORS !!!”
Hours later he was dead...
Also on Wednesday, Vincent Kennedy, a QAnon influencer with 380K Twitter followers—some of whom belief he is JFK Jr—said he would "departing" this world at midnight on Wednesday.
His last post, a GIF of a computer shutting down, has 4,300 Likes
Michael Protzman,, aka Negative 48, the leader of the QAnon cult who believed he was the reincarnation of JFK Jr, is dead, following a motocross accident.
His followers are already denying it's fake, a conspiracy, or that it's all part of the plan....
Meet GhostEzra, one of QAnon's biggest and most antisemitic influencers.
Thanks to the sleuthing skills of
@nickbackovic
now we know his real identity as Robert Smart, a 39-year-old, deeply religious Trump supporter from Boca Raton
On Sunday we reported on the neo Nazi homeschool network run by a couple from upper Sandusky Ohio. Did you wonder how they managed to amass 2,500 followers?
Well, meet the neo Nazi podcaster who has helped them gain national prominence
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For the last month I've been attending online webinars from election denial groups who are ramping up their efforts to try and disrupt the 2024 presidential election.
Here's what I found out:
(with typically wonderful art from
@AnjaliNair25
)
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Bue checks on Twitter are seeking to cash in on interest in the
#IsraelPalestineWar
by sharing obviously false videos and images
And Elon Musk is leading the charge
New from me:
The Ohio Department of Education has finished its investigation into the neo-Nazi homeschooling group...and appears to have concluded there's nothing it can do
1/6
"You could have a video of Meghan giving birth and they will probably claim that it is CGI. We're not dealing with rational people here.”
@cbouzy
said about the reinvigorated conspiracy movement around Meghan Markle's pregnancy
Hesketh—and the 100s "Meghan Truthers" accounts flooding my mentions—claim I "doxxed" the three women mentioned in my piece.
But their names have been known publicly since
@BotSentinel
published this report in January 5/5
This time 2yrs ago, Matthew Coleman woke his two young children in a hotel room in Mexico, bundled them into his van, drove to a remote ranch, and murdered them both with a spearfishing gun.
Despite confessing hours later, he has yet to face trial
🧵
Updates on this story from Friday about Tina Peters, the Colorado election official accused of helping leak sensitive election data to QAnon.
The FBI is now investigating Peters while Mike Lindell told Steve Bannon that he is hiding her "in a safe place"
Research comes from
@AdvDemocracy
whose founder
@DanielJJonesUS
said: “In addition to the antisemitic & violent slurs, we’re seeing his address and other personal information being shared online—with the implied or explicit purpose of ‘real-life’ action”
This is Michael Brian Protzman, an antisemitic cult-like leader who has a loyal and obsessive following of over 100,000 people online — who convinced hundreds of them to travel to Dallas this week to witness the return of JFK.
Why did FB choose last night as the moment to shut down NYU researchers' accounts?
According to one of them,
@LauraEdelson2
, it happened "hours after we informed Facebook that we were studying the spread of disinformation about Jan. 6."
cc
@FBoversight
As
@yulia_navalnaya
emerged as the leader of the Russian opposition in the wake of her husband's death last week the Kremlin kicked off an online campaign to discredits and destroy her.
Here's how they did it:
1/6
"Long before Mark walked in the door carrying a machete, Elena knew their 20 year marriage was ending, thanks to QAnon."
I spent the last two months speaking to dozens of people about how QAnon has destroyed their lives.
These are their stories.
I've been investigating IET, one of QAnon's biggest — and most anti-Semitic —influencers for the last couple of months.
Today I can reveal that his real name is Craig Longley, a chiropractor from Denver
Alexandra Caballero was already well known in right-wing circles in Miami when she joined the local Moms for Liberty chapter.
For 6 months, Alexandra was happy to take part in the group's campaigns targeting opponents.
But then things turned sour
1/7
The woman, Sadie Quinlan (known online as Yankee Wally) was previously banned from YouTube where she was earning $$$ for her conspiracy videos.
On Tuesday she began a new channel and within hours had amassed thousands of new subscribers
In the livestream, the presenter, Fiona Hesketh, disputes the part of my article where I said Quinlan attacks Markle's mental health.
"She hasn't attacked Markle's mental health at all, what she's doing is questioning her sanity..." 3/5
OK, then.
Jim Watkins told the
#Jan6Committee
that QAnon is not real and is a fiction created by leftist media led by
@mmfa
and funded by George Soros to stop independent thinking....
A trio of far-right streamers have been broadcasting themselves threatening migrants along the US-Mexico border and earning money from followers on YouTube
Last night, YouTube finally took down their accounts after
@WIRED
highlighted the issue
Facebook banned Infowars in 2018 and Alex Jones in 2019.
So how did articles and videos from Alex Jones and Infowars urging followers to “prepare for war” received over 1M interactions on Facebook in the 30 days leading up to the Capitol insurrection?
Quinlan worked with two other main promoters. Kiz Laird Connolly (known online as Murky Meg) and Natasha Cannell (known as According_2taz) still have active YouTube accounts with oevr 200,000 followers with over 90% of their content targeting Markle.
Last year,
@globalextremism
warned that white nationalist, anti-LGBTQ+, anti-immigrant and anti-lockdown groups in Ireland “seem to be coming together and echoing each other’s hateful rhetoric."
The report was largely ignored with one Irish journalist calling it "disinformation"
Just for clarity, what Quinlan actually said, in the video that was subsequently deleted is this:
"[Markle] needs to be taken, forcibly, into a mental health facility." 4/5
The QAnon followers who descended on Dallas last week to see JFK return still haven't left....and are now talking about setting up a permanent headquarters there
QAnon barely raised an eyebrow to the revelation about Ron Watkins being Q, or Matt Gaetz being investigated for child sex trafficking.
But a 99-year-old member of the British royal family dying peacefully?
That’s got them really excited.
Between them, the three woman earned almost $160,000 from YouTube in 2021 alone, according to analysis from
@BotSentinel
YouTube has yet to comment on the accounts
The man who shot a woman in California because she had a Pride flag outside her shop posted deeply anti-LGBTQ content online.
But he also posted antisemitic content and pretty much every other far-right conspiracy you can think of
However, the account holder, Sadie Quinlan, last night appeared on another account's livestream where many of the same conspiracies were shared and they discussed my report in "a thing called VICE, which I have never heard of before." 2/5
Things are getting weirder in Dallas.
It appears to be Pryme Minister's birthday (who is one of the main leaders of the group) so obviously this is how they celebrate
I rounded up the wildest moments from the batshit crazy QAnon conference in Dallas this weekend including:
- Michael Flynn calling for a military coup
- Threats to hang Hillary Clinton
- A sitting Congressman
- An $8,000 baseball bat
And so much more...
As Twitter has become completely unusable in the wake of the
#IsraelPalestineConflict
, Elon Musk has repeatedly boasted that his Community Notes system is working effectively to combat disinformation.
Our investigation found the opposite true...
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Moms for Liberty portrays itself as a wholesome, grassroots group dedicated to protecting "parental rights"
For the last 5 months I've talked to people who've been attacked, harassed and had their lives destroyed by this group.
These are their stories:
Anyone who has paid even the slightest attention to the Telegram channels these cretins swim in would have seen how the violent rhetoric has been ratcheting up in recent months.
The night before the attack, Conor McGregor, a useful idiot for these guys posted this: