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@AricToler
Sep 4, 2024 • 7 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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A new DoJ indictment alleges that RT employees "covertly fund[ed] and direct[ed]" a US company with $10m in order to push pro-Russia content. The company is based in Tennessee.

There is one media company based in Tennessee with the same phrase listed in the indictment...


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Indictment: justice.gov/d9/2024-09/u.s…
And the Canadian entity that owns Tenet Media

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The indictment specifies that two of the people who work for this Tennessee company (Tenet) were "deceived" -- meaning they didn't know that the Russian government was running an influence op.

Dave Rubin has 2.4 million subscribers and Tim Pool has 1.37 million. Image
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Benny Johnson also has almost 2.4m, but they apparently rounded down from 1.37m --> 1.3m with Tim Pool so I figured Rubin's 2.44m --> 2.4m was the same. Image
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Some more legwork in this thread on identifying the other unnamed (and very lightly masked) "commentators" in the indictment

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Aug 26, 2025
Israel justified its strike on the Nasser Hospital, which killed six journalists and more than a dozen others, by claiming a "Hamas" camera was set up there.
The location they attacked is where Reuters and the AP livestream.
From @IKershner, me, @ckoettl, @sanjanamv, @aboxerman1
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See @ytirawi's thread from earlier today:

Reuters streamed there back in July and all last week. The AP has also streamed there from the same staircase location overlooking Khan Younis.
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I can't believe this is still up and public. You can just click right on the profiles and see the full names and profile photos of the people asking these questions. Image
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It's just right on the homepage, what on earth is happeningmeta.ai
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I can't stop reading the Grok reply page. It's going schizo and can't stop talking about white genocide in South Africa.
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Post "@grok is this true" on any post and it'll start talking about "kill the boers" and white genocide
(At least it did for me -- I posted four times on a burner account and it talked about this stuff on each one)
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Mar 27, 2025
Be a bit wary of these claims of Hegseth having a secret Russian email. I've ran into ghost mail.ru and rambler.ru accounts made with usernames and passwords previously found in data leaks.

"He" also has a Rambler email with the same info. x.com/antii__dote/st…
I've also found a lot of "ghost" duplicate accounts with sequential numbers across mail and rambler services -- like imagine I have atoler1@mail.ru with a pw of istanbul3. or other services will show atoler2 atoler3, atoler4, etc with the same password.Intelx.io
That is all to say: be very wary of reading too much into the information on mail.ru and rambler.ru accounts in these data leak services!
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Feb 8, 2025
The Internet Archive has removed its archives of individual tweets from the account belonging to DOGE staffer Marko Elez.

The WSJ reported yesterday that this account belonged to Ekes, and that many of these tweets were racist and led to his resignation. Image
I went through my Internet history that accessed these tweets yesterday afternoon, and they're all now removed/inaccessible.

A few of them:
web.archive.org/web/2024120419…
web.archive.org/web/2024050405…
web.archive.org/web/2024122722…
web.archive.org/web/2024121023…
Lesson: save local backups, use @hunchly if you can afford it, and do matryoshksa style archiving-of-an-archive with or another servicearchive.today
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Dec 8, 2024
MSNBC is reporting that the backpack that the Midtown shooter ditched in Central Park was full of Monopoly money Image
(Or, to be conservative, it is a backpack "resembling" that of the shooter. But it wasn't some random cheap Jansport backpack, it was a bit specialized)
By specialized I mean it's a $250-300 photographer backpack. Definitely possible someone had one of these and left it out as a prank (or it was just randomly in Central Park filled with Monopoly money), but it's not a super common item.
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