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Fact check: Antifa.com redirects to Joe Biden's website, but Biden campaign allegedly not involved
Sep. 2, 2020 updated 3:58 ET Sep 17, 2020
The claim: Antifa.com redirects to Joe Biden's campaign websiteViral Facebook posts insinuate ties between Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and the left-wing, anti-fascist political movement antifa.
"if you go to Antifa.com, it takes you directly to joe bidens webpage. … whats that tell ya … try it yourself," Facebook user Johnathan Thurman wrote in a post that has been shared more than 80,000 times since Aug. 28. Several other Facebook posts claim the same, and videos show the redirect to viewers.
Thurman, whom USA TODAY reached out to via Facebook Messenger, said he knew no further details about the redirect.
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Breaking down the domain's history
A search through the digital internet archive Wayback Machine reveals the antifa.com domain has existed since 1999, although no content appears until Dec. 4, 2000. It is unclear who registered the domain, but the content appears to be a predominantly European anti-fascist newsletter available in English and Dutch.
The domain lapsed. It was renewed April 24, 2002, according to domain registration databases Whois.net and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers Lookup. It was never made into an active website.
On Nov. 21, 2008, the domain was offered for $14,410 and remained on sale until May 6, 2017, at which point, a blank page replaced the sale offer. The blank page persisted until another "domain for sale" notice appeared Aug. 10, 2019.
The website was probably bought before or around May 31. Twitter user The Rude Pundit noticed the domain's sale price was nearly $37,000.
"We Are Antifa: Join Us & Take Action Antifa.com," declares text at the top of the home page. Hashtags sympathetic to George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement are also visible. Below, a symbol used by the original anti-fascist group, Antifaschistische Aktion, founded by the Communist Party of Germany in 1932, appears in red, black and white.
Days later, more information was added in an extensive paragraph rebutting President Donald Trump's tweet May 31 vowing to designate "ANTIFA as a Terrorist Organization." For a brief time, the website redirected to a YouTube channel before announcing June 25 that an updated website was coming soon.
Biden's site gets tied to antifa
Traffic redirecting to JoeBiden.com began around Aug. 8 before stopping Aug. 13.
On Aug. 16, the domain resumed but forwarded instead to a website called "It's Going Down."
On Aug. 21, traffic redirected to KamalaHarris.org, which was being forwarded to JoeBiden.com. On Aug. 22, it went back to "It's Going Down"; and on Aug. 28, it returned to KamalaHarris.org before settling on JoeBiden.com on Aug. 31.
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Domains and redirection
Antifa.com has been registered through NameCheap, a Phoenix-based domain registrar – a company that manages internet domain names, as well as IP address assignments for those domains – since April 2002.
Redirecting a domain to any website is not hard to do. According to Mashable writer Matt Binder, all it requires is "that you type in the URL you want your domain to redirect to in your registrar’s administration panel."
Since NameCheap offers a privacy protection service to its clients, it is impossible to know who exactly owns the domain and set the redirection. USA TODAY was unable to reach NameCheap CEO Richard Kirkendall for comment.
Matt Hill, deputy national press secretary for the Biden campaign, referred USA TODAY to a tweet Monday from Biden's digital director, Rob Flaherty.
"So whoever owns http://antifa.com is redirecting it to our website as a troll. … The VP very obviously has/wants nothing to do with fringe groups," Flaherty said.
Our ruling: Missing context
We rate this claim as MISSING CONTEXT.It is true the antifa.com domain redirects to JoeBiden.com.It is unknown who exactly owns the domain and has been redirecting traffic to the Biden campaign's website. The claim lacks context given that the Biden campaign denies any association with the antifa.com website.
Our fact-check sources:
Antifa.com via Wayback Machine, Dec. 4, 2000.
Antifa.com via Wayback Machine, Nov. 21, 2008.
Antifa.com via Wayback Machine, Aug. 10, 2019.
Antifa.com via Wayback Machine, May 31.
Antifa.com via Wayback Machine, Aug. 8.
Antifa.com via Wayback Machine, Aug. 16.
Antifa.com via Wayback Machine, Aug. 21.
Antifa.com via Wayback Machine, Aug. 22.
Antifa.com via Wayback Machine, Aug. 28.
Antifa.com via Wayback Machine, Aug. 31.
NameCheap, Jan. 11, 2017, "Where is your company located?"
Cloudflare, "What is a Domain Name Registrar?"
Vox, June 8, "Antifa, explained."
The Rude Pundit, June 1, Twitter thread.
NameCheap, "WhoisGuard."
Donald J. Trump, May 31, Twitter thread.
Mashable, Aug. 12, "No, this doesn't mean that Joe Biden owns antifa.com."
Rob Flaherty, Aug. 31, Twitter thread.
New York Times, June. 29, 2019, "Trump Consultant Is Trolling Democrats With Biden Site That Isn’t Biden’s."
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QAnon Storm Base, [10.02.21 03:05]
General Flynn called you all digital soldiers. Why? Because this is a new era.Truth is your weapon, more powerful than a musket. Not one shot was fired and they nearly stole a republic. Cyberwarfare and espoinage. If your voice didn't count why did they suspend you from Twitter and Facebook? It's because it does count in a mjaor way beyond what most can imagine. Keep up the fight, justice is on the way.
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We ALL want a resolution to the current crisis in America. We ALL want to hear the truth. We ALL have waited a long time for the criminals to be brought to justice.
Be patient. Trust the Lord and wait on Him. The Lord is a just and righteous God.
P.S. While you wait, take consolation that the traitors and criminals in the Democrat and Republican parties are scared to death as they have no idea what Trump is going to do and when. They are not resting well at night. I am. You should too.
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Great Awakening Channel 🔷, [10.02.21 03:16]
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Another example of how you could be watching a politician like Boris or Biden being a fake on TV… This time in the form of a physical implementation rather than a digital manipulation.
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It’s “fortifying” not cheating
The Time “confession” that dropped over the weekend is trying to frame an excuse to interfere with an election as “fortifying” an election.
TIME magazine just came out and said a Cabal of elites rigged the election.
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The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election
A weird thing happened right after the Nov. 3 election: nothing.
The nation was braced for chaos. Liberal groups had vowed to take to the streets, planning hundreds of protests across the country. Right-wing militias were girding for battle. In a poll before Election Day, 75% of Americans voiced concern about violence.
Instead, an eerie quiet descended. As President Trump refused to concede, the response was not mass action but crickets. When media organizations called the race for Joe Biden on Nov. 7, jubilation broke out instead, as people thronged cities across the U.S. to celebrate the democratic process that resulted in Trump’s ouster.
A second odd thing happened amid Trump’s attempts to reverse the result: corporate America turned on him. Hundreds of major business leaders, many of whom had backed Trump’s candidacy and supported his policies, called on him to concede. To the President, something felt amiss. “It was all very, very strange,” Trump said on Dec. 2.“Within days after the election, we witnessed an orchestrated effort to anoint the winner, even while many key states were still being counted.”
In a way, Trump was right.
There was a conspiracy unfolding behind the scenes, one that both curtailed the protests and coordinated the resistance from CEOs. Both surprises were the result of an informal alliance between left-wing activists and business titans. The pact was formalized in a terse, little-noticed joint statement of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and AFL-CIO published on Election Day. Both sides would come to see it as a sort of implicit bargain–inspired by the summer’s massive, sometimes destructive racial-justice protests–in which the forces of labor came together with the forces of capital to keep the peace and oppose Trump’s assault on democracy.
https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/
Time Magazine: ‘Secret,’ ‘Well-funded Cabal’ Worked to ‘Protect’ 2020 Election
Time magazine has published a detailed account of what it describes as a “conspiracy” between “left-wing activists and business titans” to create “an extraordinary shadow effort” to “protect” the 2020 presidential election.
The New York Times had reported on the effort in January, referring to the “Democracy Defense Coalition.” The Daily Beast hinted at it in the fall. But the Time article is the most in-depth report at what others suggested was going on behind the scenes.
The article by Molly Ball, titled “The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election,” presents the effort as a heroic effort to preserve a free and fair election, and to fend off President Donald Trump’s anticipated claims of fraud.
Ball’s description, however, also matches what she calls a “paranoid” view of an effort to make it difficult for Trump to win:
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/02/05/time-magazine-secret-well-funded-cabal-worked-to-protect-2020-election/
Time Magazine Describes Cabal That Rigged 2020 Election
Leftists totalitarians are convinced that they have it all wrapped up now. They are not worried about backlash, future elections, protests, dissidents, or anything else. If they didn’t think the game is over, Time Magazine — the flagship magazine of the liberal establishment — would not run a nearly 7,000-word piece detailing the left-wing cabal that ensured Biden would win the 2020 election.
As noted at Breitbart,
https://moonbattery.com/time-magazine-describes-cabal-that-rigged-2020-election/
‘Where is the line between global business & attempts to control society?’ Putin asks Davos as he calls out power of Big Tech
Technology giants have become powerful rivals to governments, but there are doubts over the benefits for society of their monopoly positions, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin told the annual World Economic Forum, on Wednesday .
“Where is the line between a successful global business, in-demand services and consolidation of big data – and attempts to harshly and unilaterally govern society, replace legitimate democratic institutions, restrict one’s natural right to decide for themselves how to live, what to choose, what stance to express freely?” Putin wondered.
“We’ve all seen this just now in the US. And everybody understands what I’m talking about,” he added.
The Russian leader was apparently referring to the crackdown by Big Tech corporations like Twitter, Facebook, Google, Apple and Amazon, mostly on Donald Trump and his supporters, during the recent presidential election in the US.
The companies, which, according to some critics, sided with Democratic candidate Joe Biden, blocked President Trump’s social media accounts over accusations of inciting violence, with the same being done to many pages of groups and individuals who’d backed him.
However, one-sided bias claim voiced by some might be an overestimation – the accounts of Democrats supporters were also subject to restrictions, but on a much smaller scale.
Conservative Twitter-like platform Parler was also forced offline, and now there are calls to block the Telegram app as well.
These events have shown that Big Tech companies “in some areas have de facto become rivals to the government,” Putin said.
Billions of users spend large parts of their lives on the platforms and, from the point of view of those companies, their monopolistic position is favorable for organizing economic and technological processes, the Russian president explained. “But there’s a question of how such monopolism fits the interest of society,” he stressed.
https://www.rt.com/russia/513768-putin-slams-big-tech-in-davos/
Notables are not endorsements
#257
>>55407S Dough @71
>>55414 , >>55451, >>55452, PF Reports
>>55398 Nasdaq, New York Stock Exchange sue SEC over planned overhaul of public data feeds
>>55396 , >>55397, >>55400, Antifa.com redirects to The White House Website - USA Today runs cover
>>55392 Devin Nunes hasn't been suspended. It was a joke by Alex Salvi (sorry)
>>55424 , >>55425, >>55428, >>55429, (2019) Covid-19 Vaccine: Gene Therapy Risks
>>55433 ‘A hoax from day one’: Michigan GOP leader says Capitol riot was ‘staged’
>>55434 , >>55435, Jeffrey Lord Read Through the Democrats’ 77 Page Impeachment Paper and Identified 75 Lies
>>55436 General Flynn called you all digital soldiers, If your voice didn't count why do they suspend you from Twitter and Facebook
>>55437 Lin Wood 'I understand that others prefer plastic surgery, body doubles and deep fakes
>>55439 Deep fakes, who is under the mask?
>>55440 Welcome to China! The Dallas Mavericks have ceased playing the National Anthem
>>55442 , >>55446, >>55220 pb, >>55223 pb, TIME magazine just came out and said a Cabal of elites rigged the election
>>55447 Three MSM articles admitting to the rigged 2020 election, rubbing it in everyone's face
>>55448 ‘Where is the line between global business & attempts to control society?’ Putin asks Davos as he calls out power of Big Tech
>>55450 Joseph Stealin, Rudy posts for keks
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Impeachment Sequel To Go Straight To DVD
February 9th, 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C.—While Impeachment is a beloved classic that was released in theatres a year ago, the short-awaited sequel Impeachment 2: The Reckoning is going to be released straight to DVD, sources confirmed Tuesday.
Due to budgetary concerns and lack of interest, the movie will skip theatres and go straight to home video. The plot of the new film is said to be a straight rip-off of the first film, but with a lot more crying, posturing, and grandstanding. Many critics have said the new movieis predictable and boring, with some claiming it's entirely pointless.
"Yeah, I mean, the first Impeachment was OK, but did we really need a second one?" wrote movie reviewer Landon Giles. "It's just superfluous at this point. Yeah, yeah, orange man bad, we get it. The big bad guy in this one isn't even the president this time! He's just some private citizen! And all the same old dialogue is rehashed. It's just not fresh anymore."
According to sources, the third Impeachment movie will be directed by Rian Johnson and will feature the impeachment managers being old and bitter on an island while they milk alien cows.
"This movie litteraly murdered me." - AOC
https://babylonbee.com/news/impeachment-sequel-to-go-straight-to-dvd
Notables are not endorsements
#257
>>55414 , >>55451, >>55452, PF Reports
>>55398 Nasdaq, New York Stock Exchange sue SEC over planned overhaul of public data feeds
>>55396 , >>55397, >>55400, Antifa.com redirects to The White House Website - USA Today runs cover
>>55392 Devin Nunes hasn't been suspended. It was a joke by Alex Salvi (sorry)
>>55424 , >>55425, >>55428, >>55429, (2019) Covid-19 Vaccine: Gene Therapy Risks
>>55433 ‘A hoax from day one’: Michigan GOP leader says Capitol riot was ‘staged’
>>55434 , >>55435, Jeffrey Lord Read Through the Democrats’ 77 Page Impeachment Paper and Identified 75 Lies
>>55436 General Flynn called you all digital soldiers, If your voice didn't count why do they suspend you from Twitter and Facebook
>>55437 Lin Wood 'I understand that others prefer plastic surgery, body doubles and deep fakes
>>55439 Deep fakes, who is under the mask?
>>55440 Welcome to China! The Dallas Mavericks have ceased playing the National Anthem
>>55442 , >>55446, >>55220 pb, >>55223 pb, TIME magazine just came out and said a Cabal of elites rigged the election
>>55447 Three MSM articles admitting to the rigged 2020 election, rubbing it in everyone's face
>>55448 ‘Where is the line between global business & attempts to control society?’ Putin asks Davos as he calls out power of Big Tech
>>55450 Joseph Stealin, Rudy posts for keks
>>55454 Impeachment Sequel GOES Straight To DVD, The Babylon Bee
#257