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TikTok Removes Videos From Conservatives Containing False Voter-Fraud Allegations
Unlike other corners of the internet, TikTok is at its most elegant when its users lean into their most smooth-brained impulses. An infinite scroll of skateboarding parakeets, cottagecore witches hexing the moon and fun breakfast hacks is a balm to the soul in these fraught political times, and the mindlessness of the content is almost…
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Author Behind Bogus Hunter Biden Report Isn’t Real Either
As if this Hunter Biden smear campaign couldn’t be more clearly manufactured, Martin Aspen, the author behind a viral phony “intelligence” document about the Vice President’s son that made it to Trump’s inner circle, is not the Swiss security analyst he claims to be. Namely because Martin Aspen doesn’t exist. Even his profile picture is…
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Oh God, They’re Making a Grindhouse Movie About Pizzagate and It Actually Looks Kind of Awesome
There are probably few phrases in the English language that immediately set off more alarm bells than “Pizzagate movie.” But ready or not, there is a grindhouse Pizzagate movie coming out — and against the odds, it actually looks pretty damn good.
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Twitter Deletes Post By The Federalist Calling For Coronavirus Infection Program
Twitter has removed a tweet from the right-wing site the Federalist after it shared an article by an unlicensed dermatologist urging the public to be exposed to the novel coronavirus en masse and the social network temporarily locked the site’s account.