Anonymous ID: 30f9c3 June 27, 2020, 12:58 p.m. No.9768696   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8729 >>8779 >>8799 >>8821 >>8965 >>9053 >>9109 >>9250

Did we ever dig on these Republicans? 2014?

 

The property that they are staying in for the remainder of the month is owned by Republican donor Andre Nasser and his wife Lois.

 

It is situated on the top of a bluff, 200 feet up, overlooking Gardiners Bay and Gardiners Island in what's known as the Bell Estate.

 

Located at 44 Broadview Road, the home is next door to movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, who is a noted Democrat supporter and longtime close friend of the Clintons.

 

'''The political pair have sparked a bit of controversy recently after it was revealed that they are paying $100,000 for their three-week stay -

just weeks after Mrs Clinton claimed that they were 'dead broke' after leaving the White House in 2000.'''

 

And they may well run into Mr Weinstein at the upcoming Clinton Foundation fundraiser on Saturday at the home of George and Joan Hornig in Water Mill.

 

Tickets start at $5,000 a person and soar up to $50,000 a couple for a seat at the head table and an invitation to the Clinton Foundation’s annual spring briefing in 2015.

 

Mrs Clinton, who has just finished an international

book tour to promote her tome, Hard Choices,

 

 

Protected:

Mrs Clinton, 66,

kept her eyes shaded from the sun with a pair of oversized sunglasses and a visor

 

A straw visor and muumuu for Hillary and SoulCycle shorts for Bill: Relaxed Clintons enjoy some downtime on the beach with their dogs

The former President and his wife are in a Hamptons hamlet called Amagansett,

where they have paid $100,000 on an $18million property for a three-week stay

 

 

By MARGOT PEPPERS FOR MAILONLINE and MAILONLINE REPORTER

PUBLISHED: 16:47 EDT, 8 August 2014 | UPDATED: 17:01 EDT, 8 August 2014

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2720212/A-straw-visor-muumuu-Hillary-SoulCycle-shorts-Bill-Relaxed-Clintons-enjoy-downtime-beach-dogs.html

 

https://thehayride.com/2014/08/hilarious-top-15-best-hillary-and-bill-clinton-beach-photo-comments/

Anonymous ID: 30f9c3 June 27, 2020, 1:08 p.m. No.9768806   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8821 >>8876 >>8965 >>9053 >>9109 >>9250

>>9768729

 

About

George Hornig is an accomplished operating executive, Director, Advisor and experienced venture investor whose career has focused on financial services (asset management including ETF and mutual funds, investment banking, insurance and fin-tech) but also spanned industries as diverse as health care, manufacturing, consumer products, outsourcing of business services, social media, cybersecurity, augmented reality, and e-waste management. In addition to his role in leading established businesses, George is an experienced public and private company Director and Audit Committee Chairman, and a significant investor and Advisor to entrepreneur founders of many early stage firms.

 

 

For more than 30 years, Lois Nasser has negotiated record-setting sales for many of Manhattan's most sought-after properties. Lois's 2010 sales production placed her in the top five agents in Manhattan and ranked her in the top 25 agents in sales volume company-wide. As a Senior Global Real Estate Advisor and Associate Broker with Sotheby's International Realty, she deals in a broad range of properties including premier condominiums, cooperatives and townhouses.

Her clients, which include many notable personalities, celebrities and business leaders, also benefit from her strict adherence to confidentiality regarding all transactions.>>9768799

Anonymous ID: 30f9c3 June 27, 2020, 1:15 p.m. No.9768876   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>9768806

>>9768821

 

Horning

maybe he advised HRC about the hammered phones

 

Electronic waste

Electronic waste or e-waste describes discarded electrical or electronic devices.

Used electronics which are destined for refurbishment, reuse, resale, salvage recycling through material recovery, or disposal are also considered e-waste

 

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=e-waste&atb=v225-4rk&ia=web

 

 

>cybersecurity

>e-waste

Anonymous ID: 30f9c3 June 27, 2020, 1:45 p.m. No.9769151   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9194 >>9230 >>9250 >>9272

QAnon bad:

 

Bieber a target

tik tok

propaganda

gen z

pizzagate

conspiracy

robbie williams

discredited

daily beast

nytimes

debunked

 

Posted on June 27, 2020 by 1BusinessWorld®

‘PizzaGate’ Conspiracy Theory Thrives Anew in the TikTok Era

 

https://1businessworld.com/2020/06/business/pizzagate-conspiracy-theory-thrives-anew-in-the-tiktok-era/

 

https://www.thedailybeast.com/tiktok-teens-are-obsessed-with-pizzagate

Pizzagate has become massive on TikTok,

reaching plenty of young people right as the reality around them—thanks to the pandemic, police violence and related unrest, and a new Netflix documentary highlighting Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes—seems more and more unhinged.

The #Pizzagate hashtag has earned more than 69 million views on the platform, while related hashtags have earned several millions more.

 

 

https://www.mic.com/p/conspiracy-theories-are-finding-a-hungry-audience-on-tiktok-23620372

Conspiracy theories are finding a hungry audience on TikTok

 

Conspiracy theorists think Justin Bieber secretly confirmed ‘Yummy’ is about Pizzagate

Someone purportedly asked him to touch his hat if the rumors 'are true' during a recent Instagram live stream.

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/justin-bieber-hat-yummy-conspiracy/

 

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=pizzagate+bieber&iar=news&ia=news

 

 

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=pizzagate+conspiracy+tiktok&page=1&adx=sltb&sexp=%7B%22v7exp%22%3A%22a%22%2C%22sltexp%22%3A%22b%22%2C%22rgiexp%22%3A%22b%22%2C%22fexp%22%3A%22c%22%2C%22pctexp%22%3A%22a%22%7D&iar=news&ia=news

 

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=bieber+pizzagate+conspiracy+tiktok&iar=news&ia=news

 

 

l E T 17

@Inevitable_ET

>https://nytimes.com/2020/06/27/technology/pizzagate-justin-bieber-qanon-tiktok.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

‘PizzaGate’ Conspiracy Theory Thrives Anew in the TikTok Era

 

The “false” theory targeting Dems, now fueled by QAnon and teenagers on TikTok, is entangling new targets like Justin Bieber

 

Yet we continue to grow & persist. Nothing can stop what’s coming

https://twitter.com/Inevitable_ET/status/1276933099905888256

 

clear your cookies

behind a paywall:

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/27/technology/pizzagate-justin-bieber-qanon-tiktok.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

Anonymous ID: 30f9c3 June 27, 2020, 1:52 p.m. No.9769194   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9198 >>9230 >>9250 >>9275

>>9769151

 

mic.com says

THOROUGHLY DEBUNKED:

 

"The conspiracy theory was thoroughly debunked, "

>https://www.mic.com/p/conspiracy-theories-are-finding-a-hungry-audience-on-tiktok-23620372

 

Just let Rolling Stone tell you:

NOVEMBER 16, 2017 3:07PM ET

 

Anatomy of a Fake News Scandal

Inside the web of conspiracy theorists, Russian operatives, Trump campaigners and Twitter bots who manufactured the ‘news’ that Hillary Clinton ran a pizza-restaurant child-sex ring

 

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/anatomy-of-a-fake-news-scandal-125877/

 

 

But as it turns out, the theory continues to live on, finding new life on TikTok, according to the Daily Beast.

 

The #Pizzagate hashtag has racked up nearly 80 million views on TikTok. Related hashtags have millions of views of their own

 

I thought you said 69 Milllion

Anonymous ID: 30f9c3 June 27, 2020, 1:57 p.m. No.9769230   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9272

>>9769194

>>9769151

 

https://driven-by-data.net/

 

https://driven-by-data.net/2016/12/10/pizzagate.html

 

Dissecting the #PizzaGate Conspiracy Theories

In the span of a few weeks, a false rumor that Hillary Clinton and her top aides were involved in various crimes snowballed into a wild conspiracy theory that they were running a child-trafficking ring out of a Washington pizza parlor.

 

In this piece we looked into 8 of the claims that gave PizzaGate momentum.

 

visit

 

Published Dec 10, 2016 on nytimes.com

with Jon Huang and Cecilia Kang

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/12/10/business/media/pizzagate.html?mtrref=undefined&gwh=9A043B81FB36D7B298588E570FCC900A&gwt=pay&assetType=REGIWALL

Anonymous ID: 30f9c3 June 27, 2020, 2:06 p.m. No.9769272   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9274 >>9312

>>9769230

>>9769151

 

hahahaha

tik tok is going to not be what the lefties hoped for withthe Rally ticket excitement:

 

 

black identity extremist 🇿🇼

@kzouis

the tiktok teens have found pizzagate and lost all critical thinking.

5:56 PM · Jun 18, 2020

15

See black identity extremist 🇿🇼’s other Tweets

 

https://crooksandliars.com/2020/06/beware-tiktok-my-friends

 

Politics 6/23/20 6:00am Read time: 5 minutes 95 comments

Beware The TikTok, My Friends

With all the high-fiving about the TikTok kids punking the Trump campaign, I had to wonder if this meant that TikTok was an unabashedly great thing for politics. It's not.

By digby

 

With all the high-fiving about the TikTok kids punking the Trump campaign, I had to wonder if this meant that TikTok was an unabashedly great thing for politics. It’s mostly a teen-age platform and while I’m sure the kids are all terrific I’m not sure they are equipped to know what’s real from what’s not when it comes to political propaganda.

 

digby

@digby56

Yep. I've been thinking about this all morning. It never goes only one way…

 

zeynep tufekci

@zeynep

Replying to @zeynep

Instead of short-term celebration of whatever happens to please one group, people should think: Wait how will this be weaponized by someone else? (It will). What will happen to the public sphere? How could we design things for healthier outcomes no matter who the weaponizers are?

10:57 AM · Jun 21, 2020

 

It literally couldn’t be worse. This is the most disgusting, outrageous conspiracy theory out there. And it’s taken off like wildfire on the platform. Will Somer who covers the right wing at the Daily Beast reports:

 

Get ready for Pizzagate, Round 2.

 

While YouTube has tried to root out the conspiracy theory about a Democratic child sex dungeon in a Washington pizzeria by attaching a warning to those searching for the topic on its site, there’s a surprising place where Pizzagate is booming. Nearly four years after it began, the conspiracy theory is popping up all over the place on the short-form video app and Gen Z hangout spot TikTok.

 

Pizzagate has become massive on TikTok, reaching plenty of young people right as the reality around them—thanks to the pandemic, police violence and related unrest, and a new Netflix documentary highlighting Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes—seems more and more unhinged. The #Pizzagate hashtag has earned more than 69 million views on the platform, while related hashtags have earned several millions more.

Anonymous ID: 30f9c3 June 27, 2020, 2:06 p.m. No.9769274   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9288

>>9769272

Take a TikTok video posted at the beginning of June. It looks like so many others: a teenager sitting in her room, while a pop song plays behind her. Rather than being about problems in school, relationships, or mainstream politics, though, this teenager is convinced that Hillary Clinton and former Clinton campaign chief John Podesta are eating children in the basement of a D.C. pizzeria.

 

“Search up the #pizzagate and read it all,” her texts on the screen flash. “If I die from this just know it was not an accident or suicide”

The resurgence comes even as original Pizzagate promoters like Mike Cernovich and Jack Posobiec flee from their associations with the conspiracy theory after it inspired an arson attack and a shooting at the restaurant. And it appears to be far more widespread than when it first began spreading in 2016. Indeed, it’s hard to overstate how huge Pizzagate is on TikTok, particularly amongst teenagers who don’t otherwise fit a right-wing conspiracy theorist mold. I watched hours of posts on the hashtag, and many of the young people promoting it are otherwise just interested in viral dances and Black Lives Matters.

 

Many of the biggest Pizzagate videos come from @_Kirie, a British teenager who regularly reaches nearly 1 million views each with each video claiming that Comet Ping Pong is the center of a pedophile ring. He didn’t respond to a request for comment. Typically, his videos are a screenshot of a ludicrous Twitter post promoting Pizzagate, with an encouragement for his followers to spread the conspiracy theory.

 

Another account with more than 150,000 followers, which normally posts dance moves about historic events, declared that “2020 is the year of the pedobusters.” In another video, the person behind the account posed as Edgar Maddison Welch, the unhinged Pizzagate conspiracist who, in 2016, opened fire inside the restaurant (fortunately, no one was hurt).

 

“There’s way too much that adds up in that case,” the caption reads.

 

Much of the latest interest among TikTok users appears to have been fueled by bogus viral tweets claiming that Hillary Clinton is currently on trial for being a pedophile. In reality, she’s fighting a mundane court case over her private email server with Trump ally Tom Fitton and his group, Judicial Watch. Nevertheless, videos that each receive nearly 100,000 views claim that Clinton is secretly on trial for running a child sex dungeon.

 

“I don’t know why no one’s talking about this,” said one TikToker in a video this week.

 

Other videos claim that Justin Bieber’s song “Yummy”, released in January, is secretly about Pizzagate. Monash University professor Mark Andrejevic, who has studied conspiracy theories on TikTok, says the app’s format is ripe for promoting them.

 

This just makes me depressed. And a little bit nervous. These kids don’t know the history or the dynamics of our ugly politics of the last few decades. They’re just seeing something and believing it because someone passed it on to them. They know the technology but they don’t know the context or the subtext. In some ways, they are like the elderly who get a chain letter or a Facebook post from someone they trust and believe what it says.

 

It’s worrying.

 

Update: Here’s a young influencer named Brandon Wardell. He believes in free healthcare.

And Pizzagate:

 

“I have very leftist politics, but I want to say I believe in Pizzagate as much as I believe people should have free healthcare. They shouldn’t be mutually exclusive.”

 

Actually, they should be. One is political position the other is delusional nonsense. But I’m afraid the left-wing is full of people who are as ripe for this bullshit as the right.

 

Published with permission of Hullabaloo

 

Tags:

Pizzagate, TikTok

Anonymous ID: 30f9c3 June 27, 2020, 2:11 p.m. No.9769312   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9313

>>9769272

 

tik tok is going to be helpful

sommers hates it

 

>Will Somer

https://www.thedailybeast.com/is-tiktok-2020s-new-propaganda-playground

Is TikTok 2020’s New Propaganda Playground?

 

TikTok has features to keep the hate-mongers and the disinformation-peddlers out. They may not be enough.

 

Will Sommer

Kelly Weill

Updated Jan. 13, 2020 10:33AM ET / Published Dec. 23, 2019 4:58AM ET

 

The warning sounded dire: Sex traffickers were placing zip ties on cars of people they hoped to kidnap. Within days of the claim appearing in a TikTok video, the post had racked up more than 700,000 likes, many of them from scared teens. Every one of them was playing into a hoax: The zip-tie scare was a previously debunked rumor that found new life on the video-sharing app.

 

2016 was the year hoaxes like the Pizzagate conspiracy theory took over Facebook and Twitter. Since then, a new social media powerhouse has emerged: TikTok, a video app with 1.5 billion global users. With the 2020 election looming, TikTok is about to face its own disinformation reckoning.

While some of the platform’s design makes it hard for some hoaxes to spread, researchers say, the app’s structure and opaque moderation system can warp users’ ideas of the news, spreading half-truths or keeping some topics out of the public eye altogether.

 

Even if the worst happens, it won’t look quite like 2016, when the Pizzagate conspiracy theory racked up countless shares across mainstream social media. Followers of the right-wing hoax falsely claimed that Hillary Clinton was involved in a child sex-trafficking ring based out of a D.C. pizzeria. And platforms like Facebook and Twitter made it easy for users to repost each others’ bizarre claims.

 

That exact scenario couldn’t happen on TikTok.

 

Unlike Facebook and Twitter, which allow users to share others’ posts, TikTok has no equivalent of a “retweet” button. Instead it requires users to make their own, original posts. That means every user’s profile is a collection of their own work—and it creates a natural barrier to some kinds of disinformation, said Cristina López G., a senior research analyst at the nonprofit Data & Society.

 

“Within the platform, that reduces reach,” López said. TikTok allows users to riff on each others’ videos by borrowing their audio or making “duets” (split-screen videos that show the original video alongside the new clip). López described the format as a “yes, and…” structure. If users want to amplify a message, they need to add their own voice, making it harder for anonymous trolls or bot armies to spread disinformation as quickly and efficiently as they can on Twitter.

 

So far, the audio-focused sharing has been harder to weaponize than text-based posts.

 

“The main building block for content on TikTok is sound. That poses some challenges for disinformation, making it less compelling,” López said. “I’m not trying to claim there isn’t any disinfo on TikTok or that it will remain impervious to it: if you type ‘epstein’ or ‘qanon’ on the search bar you’ll see that there is… some. But you’ll see that the sound meme is a challenge for producers of disinfo who are trying to create content in the same way they do elsewhere—their content doesn’t seem to go very far because of that.”

 

“Everything you’re experiencing, you experience inside the platform. In TikTok, in a sense, you’re locked inside.”

— Cameron Hickey

TikTok did not return a request for comment.

 

But TikTok’s closed nature could also make it more susceptible to hoaxes because content on the platform doesn’t link out to other sources, according to disinformation expert Cameron Hickey.

 

“Everything you’re experiencing, you experience inside the platform,” Hickey said. “In TikTok, in a sense, you’re locked inside.”

 

Other platforms have consciously tried to crack down on disinformation by limiting users’ ability to share posts. In response to social media-fueled killings in India, the Facebook-owned message service WhatsApp limited its sharing feature earlier this year. Previously, users could forward a message 20 times. Now they’re capped at five, in a bid to fight “misinformation and rumors.”

 

TikTok also has its own content moderation system. And like those of Facebook and Twitter, that moderation system comes with its own thorny ethical questions.

 

Some extreme keywords appear to be banned in TikTok searches. A search for Atomwaffen, a murderous white supremacist group, yields no results, but a warning that “this phrase may be associated with hateful behavior.” It’s unclear when TikTok rolled out the policy. A 2018 Vice investigation found pro-Atomwaffen material, although some hashtags associated with the group still yield search results. Similarly, “Hitler” surfaces no TikToks (and weirdly, no content warning) but “Honkler” a pointless-to-explain Nazi meme about clowns still turns up videos.

Anonymous ID: 30f9c3 June 27, 2020, 2:11 p.m. No.9769313   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>9769312

In November, a whistleblower told the German publication Netzpolitik that TikTok limits the reach of some videos by secretly labeling them as “visible to self,” (only the uploader can see the video) “not recommended” and “not for feed.” The latter two labels make it harder to discover a video via searches, or in TikTok’s powerful recommendation feed.

 

A leaked TikTok moderation guide from November included some common clauses (removing videos deemed to promote terrorism) as well as other, more controversial policies. Like YouTube, which tried to remove some conspiracy theories from its recommendations this year, TikTok has a policy against “conspiracy theories that put the public safety at risk, or that egregiously lack a factual basis” in a way that “can introduce real world harm.” (It lists “anti-vaccine propaganda,” “Holocaust denial,” and “fake bomb scare pranks” as examples.) The videos are allowed, but should be labeled as “not for feed,” the guide said.

 

TikTok’s structure makes it less vulnerable to outright hoaxes than it is misleading uses of actual news, according to Hickey, although understanding disinformation on TikTok is harder because of a lack of data. Hickey points to a TikTok video suggesting that Barack Obama buying a $14 million house on Martha’s Vineyard is proof that global warming isn’t real as exactly the kind of misleading videos that can have success on the platform.

 

“There’s nothing literally false in this, but there’s definitely a misleading statement,” Hickey said.

 

TikTok users can sometimes be pushed into producing more political content in their quests for a larger audience. Hickey said he’s witnessed users who rack up only middling numbers when they produce typical TikTok fare, like participating in viral dance crazes, only to see stratospheric engagement when they make a video playing on the “Jeffrey Epstein didn’t kill himself” meme.

 

Other TikTok policies pose further questions about the platform’s power over political speech. Videos “depicting controversial events” and “content that may lead to wider social division” including footage of political protests should be labeled “not for feed,” according to the leaked document. Those policies often line up squarely with the Chinese government’s interests. In September, amid suspicion that China-based company was hiding footage of mass protests in Hong Kong, TikTok was also revealed to be censoring videos about the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, the Tibetan independence movement, and religious groups banned in China.

 

And sometimes TikTok’s emphasis on music can be a boon to the far right. In India, Hindu nationalists have found a huge TikTok audience with songs encouraging the seizure of property in Kashmir and misogynistic treatment of Kashmiri women, Vice reported this summer.

 

The TikTok audience skews younger, meaning it could be a key place for people hoping to confuse or mislead young voters.

 

“This is a place where they’re likely to be forming their political beliefs,” Hickey said.

 

While far-right conspiracy theories do not appear as prominently on TikTok as on other platforms, the app has a thriving mainstream MAGA scene. For members of this community, TikTok’s insular nature can create a kind of conservative filter bubble, The New York Times noted in an article declaring “TrumpTok” a “safe space from safe spaces.”

 

Massive and growing, TikTok could be a motherlode for disinformation agents who want to influence the 2020 election. But any hoaxes they pull off will have to look different than the copy-paste conspiracy theories that swamped Facebook in 2016.

 

“It would be naive to say that bad actors won’t find vulnerabilities on TikTok to exploit,” López said, “but what seems to be happening for now is that disinfo in the shape and form we’ve seen it in other platforms simply flops on TikTok.”