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14 May, 5 tweets, 2 min read
The preliminary hearing for this case was today and police never presented the so-called deepfake to the court.

Because, as I exclusively revealed in April, the cops never even had the video. The lawyer for the alleged deepfake mom has told me that the vaping video was real.
The district attorney in the case against the Pennsylvania mom accused of making deepfakes has now said that the videos in the case many not be deepfakes at all.

buckscountycouriertimes.com/story/news/202…
Prosecutors, who backtracked on their claims Friday that a Pennsylvania mom created deepfakes to harass her daughter's cheerleading rivals, are still taking the case to trial.

inquirer.com/news/rafaella-…
My original belief back in March was that the so-called deepfake video showing the alleged victim vaping was real, even though police & the media ran with the girl's claim that the footage was "manipulated."

Looks like the video was almost certainly legitimate all along.
When I spoke with the lead investigator in the case against the mom accused of making deepfakes last month, this is what he told me when I suggested that the vaping video might not be manipulated at all.

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14 May
Scoop: Document reveals Trump's D.C. hotel purposely spiked prices to keep out QAnon supporters. dailydot.com/debug/trump-ho…
In February, Forbes reported that the price of hotel rooms had increased from around $476 to $1,331 per night for March 3 & 4.

The hotel wouldn't confirm whether the price surge was related to the belief among QAnon supporters that Trump would be inaugurated on March 4.
An intelligence briefing leaked onto the dark web by a ransomware gang this week shows that D.C. police contacted Trump Hotel.

The hotel said it spiked prices as a "security tactic" in order to keep potential protesters from booking rooms.
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24 Nov 20
While there is an unconfirmed report of Parler being hacked, the screenshot circulating of a Parler database password is old.

I looked into the database leak in July and confirmed thanks to @WhiskeyNeon that it was for a site not held on the same infrastructure as the main site.
As you can see in an archived version of the configuration file, the page was discovered as early as July of this year.

This isn't to deny that a hack may have taken place, but that this screenshot is almost certainly unrelated. archive.ph/Mll5H
The leaked database was linked to a WordPress page that Parler seemingly used for blog posts and announcements. It would not have hosted user data.

The main Parler site is not based on WordPress.
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19 Nov 20
Thread: The debunked claim that servers run by Dominion Voting Systems were seized in Germany is making the rounds again.

So I'm going to explain where this claim originated from and how it devolved into its current incarnation. dailydot.com/debug/us-army-…
The claim appears to have originated in the form of a garbled German screenshot posted to Twitter that claimed the U.S. Army had raided Scytl, a Spanish election technology company, at their offices in Frankfurt.

(Translation on the right)
The screenshot made its way to Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Tx.) several days later, who referenced the tweet during a Zoom call and during an interview on Newsmax.

Gohmert admitted that he didn't actually know whether the tweet was true.

leadstories.com/hoax-alert/202…
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14 Sep 20
An interesting point brought up by @ZTPetrizzo - The account that tweeted out photos of the Burkman raid was created last month and had zero previous tweets.

Given Burkman and Wohl's tracks record, I'd be a bit skeptical until the FBI confirms the raid. dailydot.com/debug/jack-bur…
A password reset attempt for the Twitter account that first tweeted out the photos of the alleged FBI raid on Jack Burkman shows that the account was created with the email ja*******@g****.***
A Virginia man tells the Daily Beast that he participated in the 'raid' after responding to a Craigslist ad seeking actors to play FBI agents for a television pilot.

In other words, the raid was staged by Burkman and Wohl.

thedailybeast.com/jacob-wohl-sta…
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14 Sep 20
New: An apparent glitch made it appear to some users that Tom Hanks had deleted years' worth of tweets when he in fact hadn't.

This caused conspiracy theorists to claim that Hanks was attempting to hide his ties to a Satanic child-eating pedophile cult.

dailydot.com/debug/tom-hank…
I was able to confirm that some users were seeing his last tweet as being from 2017, while others could see his actual latest tweet from May of this year.

Conspiracy theorists also alleged that the picture of a shoe on Hanks' account was evidence of child trafficking.
I reached out to Twitter multiple times to ask why some users were not seeing 3 years' worth of his tweets while others were.

Twitter is looking into the matter but has yet to reply. It's unclear if this issue was present with any other accounts as well.
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31 May 20
Be careful of any tweets regarding "Anonymous." A lot of misinformation going around.

- Trump's private information did not just leak. It was already public.

- Documents regarding rape allegations against Trump did not just leak. They have been public since 2016. ImageImageImageImage
- Anonymous did not leak the contents of Epstein's little black book as many are claiming.

The content was made public by Gawker back in 2015. #OpDeathEaters #Anonymous #Anonymousisback ImageImage
Did Anonymous hack the Chicago Police Department's radio to play N.W.A.'s "Fuck Tha Police?"

I looked into the viral claim. There is no evidence anyone claiming affiliation with Anonymous was involved. dailydot.com/debug/anonymou… via @dailydot
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