More than 44,000 tweets in less than 48 hours for this new piece of "research" by the QAnon crowd. A tweet on 8 July seems to have started this bizarre claim that @Wayfair engages in child "sex trafficking" because some of its products are named after missing children
Once again, exclude retweets and the number of unique accounts pushing this drops from 20,000 to just 5,000 as 80% of the traffic is being driven by retweets. "Human trafficking" and "rabbit hole" also frequently appearing in the content. How big is the QAnon crowd in real world?
All the big tweets are from today. And once again, like #TakeTheOath, California and Texas seem to be hotspot states for QAnon content
This is going absolutely wild on Facebook too, where there are dozens and dozens of QAnon-dedicated pages and groups with hundreds of thousands of memebrs where this type of content can be shared with a huge audience
Here's the biggest Facebook post about Wayfair I can find, which has been shared 14,000 times. Plot twist, the user who posted it later says in an update that one of the kids has been found. "Doesn't mean this ain't happening. That's what they want you to think," he says...
Oh, look. One of the girls who was meant to have been "trafficked" by Wayfair has popped up on Facebook live to say she's read all this nonsense being shared about her and has had enough
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
THREAD: Huge protests have broken out in Iran tonight after a call by Reza Pahlavi, exiled son of the late Shah. Follow this thread for verified videos.
A large crowd of protesters on Kashani Blvd, west Tehran
Large numbers of protesters in Bagh Ferdows Square in the northern city of Babol chant "Long live the Shah" and "death to the dictator" tonight, on 12th day of protests in Iran.
Protesters gather outside a local police station in the southern city of Marvdasht as the sound of gunshots is heard in the background on the sixth day of protests in Iran.
@bbcpersian @GeoConfirmed A large group of protesters march in the centre of Marvdasht in Fars province after a protester named Khodadad Shirvani was killed during rallies in the city on 1 January.
THREAD: There have been questions about this video published by Iranian media today, which shows a deadly Israeli strikes on Tehran's Tajrish district on 15 June, with claims that the video is AI-generated and fake.
But the video is real and can be corroborated. Here's why.
First of all, the version that first went viral was very low-res and grainy, and that was the reason for some inconsistencies that could be seen in the footage.
The higher-resolution version, published later, looks more authentic.
But how can we confirm the strike happened?
Multiple videos were published by Iranian social media users on 15 June showing the aftermath of the strike.
The first strike targeted this building (35.805264, 51.435845) on Bahonar Street, just 100 metres from the second impact.
THREAD: New high-res satellite images released by Maxar Technologies on 24 June show new signs of damage at the Fordo nuclear site following an attack by Israel a day after the US bombed the facility.
New craters are visible at tunnel openings and buildings have been destroyed.
At Iran's Natanz enrichment facility, two craters right above the undergound buildings housing centrifuges that were visible after US strikes on 22 June have now been covered with dirt.
Before: 22 June
After: 24 June
📷@Maxar
@Maxar New Maxar Technologies satellite images show previously unseen damage to tunnel entrances at the Isfahan Nuclear Technology Centre caused by US strikes on 22 June.