With news that Twitter Inc. is now X Corp, we'll ask again:
Is it weird reverse DNS records from Elon Musk's x[.]com ping from an IP in Khabarovsk, Russia?
An IP that, up until recently, was administered by GCore Labs, who last year had pledged to no longer do business in 🇷🇺?
Maybe it’s just us, but does it also seem odd one of the other two domains hosted on the Russian Federation IP 92.38.189.247 is i41[.]ltd?
i41[.]ltd is registered to one Jianbo Zhang of Guangdong, China, the name of a professor focused on hydrogen and lithium-ion tech.🪫🔋
Usage of Russia’s Chelyabinsk — Khabarovsk fiber line has grown at least 14x over the past few years.
It’s ~20 miles from the border with China. Rostelecom runs it.
Is anyone listening?
Does anyone care?
More from x[.]com PTR records (reverse DNS) varmint hole:
The autonomous systems number (ASN) for IP 94.242.54.30, pinging from Moscow, Russia, is identified under Fishnet Communications LLC.
Fishnet Communications LLC is a Wyoming company registered by Candice Dillmon in 2017.
Per ICIJ, Dillmon is A-OK being the corporate agent for scammers, i.e. disgraced Polish politicians hawking snake-oil cures to the terminally ill. icij.org/investigations…
Last Feb., G Core Labs refuted a German news report alleging the cloud hosting company was bypassing EU sanctions to forward Russia Today content through its servers.
This was after G Core pledged to do no business with Russia last year. (See first tweet) chronicle.lu/category/ict-s…
But others called out inconsistencies in G Core's digital forensics.
Like the Low End Talk message board, where this discussion speaks about a new provider, EdgeAM, suddenly taking over G Core's database and login panels. Same passwords and everything. lowendtalk.com/discussion/185…
1. Now that it's cool for Elon stans and to care about New Knowledge's government contracts and the GEC, we are left wondering why @mtaibbi omits so much that we covered more than a year ago in his latest #TwitterFiles release.
2. Back in Jan. 2022, our EIC @rocco_castoro cracked open government contracts with Popily, Inc., aka Yonder which was a rebrand of New Knowledge following revelations that they had used Russian-inspired tactics in the Alabama 2017 Senate special election. archive.is/3q4hp
3. The above screenshots describes New Knowledge/Yonder's 2019 role as a government
subcontractor under a DoD contract awarded to Booz Allen Hamilton, the infamous consulting firm for which @Snowden once worked.
What's #SHADOWBOX, the so-called "reputation management" firm?
A chopshop where Ed Butowsky, "Defango" Chavez, Thomas Schoenberger, and Wikileaks-affiliated PR guy Trevor FitzGibbon spun out the "Hillary put a hit on Seth Rich" yarn
+ A LOT of other chicanery.
We'll be explaining more about #SHADOWBOX soon, but for now we're just going to sit back and soak up the pure joy of all the streamers, grifters, and dreamers who knew all about it.
As they scramble like cockroaches to get out from under the weight of closeted skeletons.
😎🥂🥸
PS: Also wondering whether there's anything in the #TwitterFiles about #SHADOWBOX, and if so why it hasn't been publicly shared...
BONUS EPISODE: The narration of our first T.M.I. post about Tom Barrack leveraging his Ukrainian network to put Paul Manafort on Trump's 2016 presidential campaign is now available to listen on podcast platforms and our site. theknows.net/tmi/queuing-up…
DID YOU KNOW: Trump was initially uninterested in hiring Manafort because of his association with "dirty trickster" Roger Stone.
Imagine how different things would be if Tom Barrack hadn't "leaned hard" on Trump to hire Manafort.
"DADDY, TOM SAYS WE SHOULD GET PAUL"
Trump kept dismissing the idea of hiring manafort for the campaign because of his association with Stone, so Tom Barrack pushed harder – this time, through Ivanka.
Ivanka forwarded an email pushing for Manafort's hire.