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A "journalist" for the Philadelphia Inquirer finds himself, surprise surprise, on the side of antifa once more. He joins with antifa in demanding that the police training center in Atlanta not be built.

Serenity Now! @Cpo10za

"If Cop City is built, Atlanta will define the American city of the 21st century: over-policed, heavily surveilled, and increasingly unaffordable for the average citizen."

PA-based Will Bunch hones in on key points & players, as well as local & broader implications of Cop City.

Five years ago yesterday, Greta Tardberg predicted that we'd all be dead five years hence.

I don't feel dead.

Via Beege Welbourne.

Remember this Fake Secret Whistleblower?

He's back, and still acting as an agent of zealous advocate for Ukraine.

Coast Guard confirms the wreckage on the sea floor is that of the Titanic tour sub.

Earlier, Snopes confirmed it as "TRUE" that Elon Musk's Starlight satellite internet venture might have been directly responsible for the loss of the sub and the deaths of five people.

Because they're a responsible fact-checking site and carefully examine every claim before pronouncing a true or false rating, you understand.

The humiliation of Snopes was more thorough than I first thought.

Note that Snopes is no longer the "fact-checking" site of preference for just your wine-swilling catlady unmarried aunt. Snopes is now listed as an official "fact-checker" for most social media platforms.

But you know, "fact" checkers don't bother to actually check facts. They just look for ways to claim that Democrats are telling the truth, and that Enemies of the Democrat Party are lying.

And killing people with their Musk Murder Satellites.

Leonid Rosenboim @LeoRosenboim

No radio signal of any kind, including satellite can penetrate water, meaning that the submarine could have used Starlink only while on the surface. The mothership could use Starlink too, but would need to use other means to maintain contact with the submarine, cable or sound.

Noam Blum @neontaster

I did a minimal amount of research on this and found that a transponder capable of reaching Titanic depths costs tens of thousands of dollars. And you need to put it IN the water lol

"A minimal amount of research" disclosed this.

But Snopes, the official media-certified "fact"-checker, didn't bother with that.

They know who the Angels and Devils are in this morality play.

Oh, by the way: The co-founder of Snopes built his site on plagiarism of other people's fake fact checks.

From 2021:

David Mikkelson, the co-founder of the fact-checking website Snopes, has long presented himself as the arbiter of truth online, a bulwark in the fight against rumors and fake news. But he has been lying to the site's tens of millions of readers: A BuzzFeed News investigation has found that between 2015 and 2019, Mikkelson wrote and published dozens of articles containing material plagiarized from news outlets such as the Guardian and the LA Times.

After inquiries from BuzzFeed News, Snopes conducted an internal review and confirmed that under a pseudonym, the Snopes byline, and his own name, Mikkelson wrote and published 54 articles with plagiarized material. The articles include such topics as same-sex marriage licenses and the death of musician David Bowie.

Snopes VP of Editorial and Managing Editor Doreen Marchionni suspended Mikkelson from editorial duties pending "a comprehensive internal investigation." He remains an officer and a 50% shareholder of the company.

"Our internal research so far has found a total of 54 stories Mikkelson published that used appropriated material, including all of the stories Buzzfeed shared with us," Marchionni and Snopes Chief Operating Officer Vinny Green said in a statement.

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Snopes told BuzzFeed News it plans to retract all of the offending stories and disable advertising on them. It will also append an editor's note of explanation to each.

Said Mikkelson, "There is no excuse for my serious lapses in judgement. I'm sorry."

Oh, and David Mikkelson is also accused of having embezzled $98,000 from the company, which he co-owned with his wife, and spending it on prostitutes. He then married one of his top prostitutes, who later alleged he "r@ped [her] every day."

Zero Hedge put it less delicately.

So yeah, let's trust this super-sketchy guy!

posted by Ace at 05:50 PM

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