A Madison Heights, Michigan, man killed by FBI agents during a still-murky standoff over a weapons warrant. Thirteen other Michigan and Delaware men arrested in state and federal busts over alleged plots to take over the state government. A Maryland man busted on federal weapons charges. A Virginia man arrested for allegedly violating a local open-carry law. At least four state and federal busts—and, in one case, a local arrest—have targeted the so-called “Boogaloo” movement over the past week. A loosely affiliated but broadly right-wing and libertarian collective, Boogaloos have been on federal radar over the past year, a period during […]
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has become the latest victim of a Twitter hack undertaken to trick social media users into sending cryptocurrency to the attackers. The Modi incident is another sobering reminder to always think twice before sending crypto to strangers on the internet, even if there’s a blue check and the portrait of a head of state in the profile. Source link
President Trump holds a press briefing at the White House on Wednesday. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images President Trump holds a press briefing at the White House on Wednesday. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images President Trump addressed the baseless, far-right QAnon conspiracy theory directly for the first time on Wednesday, saying he didn’t know much about the online community and its followers other than “they like me very much.” “I heard that these are people who love our country,” Trump added, in response to a question about the conspiracy community during a press briefing at the White House. […]
Conservative pundit Bill Mitchell has been kicked off Twitter, saying his opposition to face masks first earned him a suspension, which became permanent after he unwittingly violated the rules by tweeting from a second account. Mitchell announced his ban in a post on Parler on Friday, laying his Twitter handle to rest after accumulating more than 600,000 followers. Earning regular retweets from President Donald Trump, the account was a source of controversy, at times backing ‘QAnon’ conspiracy theories and voicing skepticism toward Covid-19, among other things. “Twitter just suspended me for opposing masks. Who knows if I’ll ever be back,” Mitchell […]
Fresh off his outstanding performance in Juventus’ 4-0 win over Lecce, Cristiano Ronaldo decided to make a statement off the pitch, with a summer outfit that garnered more than SEVEN MILLION reactions online. Ronaldo shared a pic of himself wearing a white short-sleeved shirt featuring a striking large multi-colored flower print, and a pair of light blue shorts featuring the same print. READ MORE: Seven points clear: Cristiano Ronaldo shows SCINTILLATING form as Serie A leaders Juventus THRASH 10-man Lecce 4-0 (VIDEO) To complete his look, he donned a pair of round wire-rimmed glasses and a pair of white box-fresh sneakers. The […]
Raz Simone, the so-called warlord of the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone carved out of Seattle by activists, has been filmed handing out assault rifles to minors. That’s a state felony, if only there were anyone to enforce the law. Video that surfaced on Monday – from Simone’s own June 10 Facebook livestream, apparently – shows him handing out assault rifles that look like the ubiquitous AR-15 semi-automatic, including to individuals who look far younger than 21. Washington state law, which went into effect last year, makes it a gross misdemeanor to transfer an assault rifle to anyone under 21, with any […]
Facebook Told My Followers I Was Spreading Misinformation About Government Surveillance May 24, 2020 Facebook Told My Followers I Was Spreading Misinformation About Government Surveillance2020-05-242020-05-24https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/1_mr_fpdvq2oowkephgd3hnw.jpeg200px200px Above photo: Evan Greer, Deputy Director of Fight for the Future. I wasn’t. Calling for more censorship — or for Big Tech companies to become the arbiters of truth — will ultimately backfire. We need to address the problem of viral disinformation at its root. Okay I’ll admit it. I still use Facebook. When I logged on last night I saw something I had never seen before: a notification that read “Partly false information found in your […]
An aspiring militia leader plotted to kidnap or kill police officers to win over new recruits, and then steal their equipment to arm his budding anti-government revolt, the FBI said Tuesday. Christian Stanley Ferguson, a 20-year-old Cleveland man, faces an attempted kidnapping charge after an FBI informant infiltrated the chat room where he allegedly hatched his plot, the latest alleged violent anti-government scheme to emerge during the coronavirus pandemic. He sought out co-conspirators to help him murder police on a popular meme website, according to social media posts reviewed by The Daily Beast. In an FBI affidavit released Tuesday, Ferguson is […]