2/ Kolfage is still active on Instagram, just in the last 24 hours posting public videos on IG Stories showing family at what appears to be their home.
He said in an Instagram comment late last week that he intends to hold a press conference over the next several days.
4/ On the YT channel, in 2019 they laughed about going to prison one day, and also laughed about how people were saying Kolfage was going to use the money for a boat.
According to last week's indictment, Kolfage used fundraising money for boat payments.
A brand new parody Twitter account that paid for verification and chose the display name of ESPN's Adam Schefter tweeted Josh McDaniels was fired. The credible-looking tweet received nearly 10,000 engagements. Twitter suspended the account after two hours. snopes.com/fact-check/jos…
THREAD: Here are the stories I've published so far for @snopes on #ElectionDay.
First, here are data+sources for each election year going back to 2000 showing all votes did NOT used to be counted by election night. Share with conspiracy-prone friends. snopes.com/fact-check/ele…
Second, a false rumor about Sharpie pens and Illinois ballots was going around on Twitter this morning.
The Illinois State Board of Elections (@illinoissbe) tweeted the facts: "Sharpies are an approved ballot marking device for many voting systems." snopes.com/fact-check/sha…
Third, here are the facts about today's Maricopa County vote-tabulation machine issues, which a spokesperson referred to as "minor."
PLUS: Here's how people in the Arizona county can track their ballot online and confirm that their vote was counted. snopes.com/news/2022/11/0…
1/ Facebook and @Meta continue to allow false and potentially defamatory posts about @Jeopardy host @missmayim to be promoted as paid ads on its platform, despite the fact that we notified the company last week. The company is profiting off of these ads. snopes.com/news/2022/04/0…
2/ All of the ads use the same text. Despite this, Meta, which brings in billions in revenue every quarter, is seemingly unable or unwilling to set something up to automatically flag ads that use these words: "Jeopardy fans are up in arms over the allegations pending against..."
3/ We've reported on the matter twice. The false ads lead to CBD scams. Here's our first story. snopes.com/fact-check/may…
1/ A brief thread. In the aftermath of the Rittenhouse verdict, meet "Renata Trump," a Facebook account with the username "renata.lewandowski.3." The account is an admin in the group named AMERICA NEEDS PRESIDENT TRUMP. The group's founder is deceased. snopes.com/news/2021/11/1…
2/ In another Facebook group named James Woods for Gov of California, a user named Drastic Bombastic posted "USA!" about the acquittal. The same account previously published election disinformation and likes a majority of Russian-language pages in Belarus. snopes.com/news/2021/11/1…
3/ Over in the Phillippines, three accounts run the Facebook pages named I Support Law Enforcement Officers and I Support The 2nd Amendment. The pages published posts that said "Not Guilty!" and linked to a sketchy website named Daily News Blitz. snopes.com/news/2021/11/1…
(THREAD) YouTube has removed multiple verified channels named “Fox News” and “Fox News Alert” following an Oct. 1 Snopes investigation that found they were pumping out disinformation to millions of subscribers. These channels were not managed by Fox News. snopes.com/news/2021/10/0…
1/ All of the YouTube channels posted long video clips from Fox News Channel. However, the thumbnails were altered to make it look like U.S. President Joe Biden was either dying or going to jail and that former U.S. President Donald Trump was coming back. snopes.com/news/2021/10/0…
2/ This was similar to a debunked QAnon conspiracy theory that led to federal authorities worrying of potential violence from Trump supporters when such disinformation inevitably failed to come true.
(THREAD) Ahead of the #60Minutes interview with the Facebook whistleblower, know this:
We contacted Facebook multiple times ahead of Jan. 6 to warn about violent rhetoric in a group with members that planned on taking matters into their own hands. snopes.com/news/2021/02/1…
1/ Facebook did not respond to us, despite multiple attempts to reach the company for comment.
We contacted the company warning them of the violent rhetoric and organizing that we saw, and we sent our emails in the days both before and after Nov. 3, which was Election Day.
2/ The New York Times later reported that a man named Keith Lee “spent the morning of Jan. 6 casing the entrances to the Capitol.” During the riots, he carried a bullhorn. “Mr. Lee called out for the mob to rush in, until his voice echoed from the dome of the Rotunda.”