We explore how disaffected young men anonymously posting memes online led to real-life violence including multiple mass murders, the forming of what came to be known as the alt-right movement, a seismic shift in the Republican party, and the January 6th, 2021 storming of the capitol. Joining us for this very special episode is Elle Reeve, correspondent for CNN and author of the new book Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society and Capture American Politics.

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Black Pill: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Black-Pill/Elle-Reeve/9781982198886


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Studying the Black Pill feat Elle Reeve (E285)

We assemble at midnight to bring this convention to a close—Paul Blart, Kamala Harris, lethality and liberalism ascendant…

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DNC DAY FOUR

Lucy, Theo and Andrew bring you: a mysterious shower of meat, a winning lottery ticket that may or may not belong to someone, illegally confiscated snacks, and some gators that might be astrally travelling.

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EPISODE 360: Share Your Cubes, Anders

This is the story of an April Fool’s Day joke that got wildly out of control.

In 1991, a columnist for InfoWorld claimed that he learned of a hyper-advanced computer virus called “AF/91” that disabled Iraqi air defense systems during the first Gulf War. This virus had allegedly escaped Iraq and threatened every computer that used a windows-based graphical interface. The last line of the column revealed the truth: the story of the AF/91 virus was a fun bit of fiction for April 1st.

But shortly afterwards, a journalist for U.S. News & World Report reported on a virus that sounded suspiciously similar to AF/91, based on confirmation from two government officials. Though the report was clearly based on the joke virus from InfoWorld, the publication refused to retract. So for more than a decade the story was repeated as if it were true in newspapers, magazines, and even in a report by a major think tank.

The boys walk through the evolution of the strange tale of this virus hoax and speculate about why it spread so widely for so long.

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QAA was known as the QAnon Anonymous podcast.

REFERENCES

Meta-Virus Set to Unleash Plague on Windows 3.0 Users
https://books.google.com/books?id=0FAEAAAAMBAJ

Computer Virus Story Proves To Be a Twice-Told Tale
https://www.newspapers.com/image/532416866/

Russian Views On Electronic and Information Warfare
https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/FOID/Reading%20Room/International_Security_Affairs/14-F-0564_DOC_01_RUSSIAN_VIEWS_ON_ELECTRONIC_AND_INFORMATION_WARFARE_vol_1.pdf

Taking a byte from Baghdad: Information War could hobble Iraq, but might become a two edged sword
https://www.newspapers.com/image/775197909/

One printer, one virus, one disabled Iraqi air defense
https://www.theregister.com/2003/03/10/one_printer_one_virus_one/

Attack Of The Trojan Printers
https://www.infoworld.com/article/2285234/attack-of-the-trojan-printers.html

The AF/91 Virus Hoax (E293)

It's been a strange week for dude celebrities in their mid-50s. We talk about that, plus the infamous Colin Farrell sex tape, as well as the first ever Lean Debate.

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Episode 359: The Grohl-Sharpe Threshold

We zoom in on the would-be-assassin caught in the bushes of Trump’s golf course. Ryan Routh, as told by others, himself (in his book) and his life choices.

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QAA was known as the QAnon Anonymous podcast.

SOURCES

Routh, Ryan. Ukraine's Unwinnable War: The Fatal Flaw of Democracy, World Abandonment and the Global Citizen-Taiwan, Afghanistan, North Korea and the end of Humanity (Kindle Edition Published February 28th, 2023)

https://www.firstalert4.com/2024/09/17/suspect-trump-assassination-attempt-has-st-louis-county-ties/
https://www.wflx.com/2024/09/17/ticking-time-bomb-nurse-says-she-reported-ryan-routh-homeland-security/
https://greensboro.com/crimefighting-pays-police-organization-honors-super-citizen/article_d76ccec9-b1cf-5618-aa7c-46a0a25d1d01.html  
https://www.wfmynews2.com/article/news/crime/who-is-ryan-routh-digging-into-trump-suspects-ties-to-greensboro/83-7c20e4ad-05f6-4a61-b1d2-dd0951cb8524  
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/16/politics/ryan-routh-trump-suspect-invs/index.html
https://www.npr.org/2024/09/16/nx-s1-5113801/trump-shooting-assassination-attempt-suspect-ryan-wesley-routh 
https://www.wfmynews2.com/article/news/local/cop-says-ryan-routh-got-more-aggressive-and-cocky-after-runins/83-27d25ac5-3c42-4189-80bd-a99c9ac7d3b3 
https://greensboro.com/skateboard-park-closed-skate-park-violates-zoning-laws-guilford-officials-say/article_15bf8f1b-acb7-5a19-a9fe-cc4bdc6ee5bb.html 
https://greensboro.com/news/local/crime-courts/ryan-wesley-routh-greensboro-hawaii-florida-trump-international-golf-course/article_73b2d722-7475-11ef-8d95-0bedfc013a0d.html#tracking-source=mp-in-article 
https://greensboro.com/news/local/crime-courts/ryan-wesley-routh-life-greensboro-north-carolina/article_518d3ccc-7462-11ef-961e-072c1c4b5b33.html

Another Day, Another Assassination Attempt  (E295)

On August 9, 2024, the IDF shot and wounded Daniel Santiago, a schoolteacher from New Jersey, in the West Bank. We talk to Daniel about Israeli violence, what it feels like to get shot, and how some shot Americans are worth more to the US Government than others.

I’m an American Activist. Israeli Forces Shot Me at a Peaceful Protest in the West Bank by Daniel Santiago: https://time.com/7020159/daniel-santiago-shot-west-bank-israel-aysenur-ezgi-eygi/

About Faz3a: https://www.defendpalestine.org/

New video, witnesses challenge Israel’s account of U.S. activist’s killing: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/09/11/american-activist-aysenur-eygi-killed-idf-west-bank/

Episode 407: Wounded In Beita

Travis has returned from the mountains and claims he’s touched so much grass that he’s considering never going outside again.  This is a good thing, because there’s lots of horrible news to catch up on – including corrupt county clerk Tina Peters’ voter fraud trial reaching its ultimate conclusion (it brings us no joy), and the richest person in the world going all in on Trump and Dark Maga.  


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Tina Peters, The Tesla CEO, and Trump (E297)

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Journalist Matthew Petti joins us to talk through his reporting on 10/23/23, the day of Jihad that never came.

https://reason.com/2024/10/07/the-day-of-jihad-that-never-came/

Episode 412: Day of Jihad (trailer)

Despite Travis’ best efforts, it’s still possible to occasionally read posts on the internet that are not perfectly accurate. In fact, Travis’ failure to turn networking technology into primarily a means of rationally exchanging ideas and substantive policy issues has forced media outlets all over the globe to employ so-called “fact checkers.”

To get a better handle on this phenomenon (for which, to reiterate, podcast host Travis View bears most of the blame) we spoke to the hardest working man in online fact checking: BBC Verify Senior Journalist Shayan Sardarizadeh. For years, he has tracked and reported on viral falsehoods, both silly and deadly, in many countries. 

We discuss how Shayan got into this unique discipline of journalism, his response to the criticism that “fact checking” primarily serves the reinforcement of establishment narratives, research which suggests fact checkers are less trusted than other kinds of reporters, the rise of deep fakes, atrocity denial, and how to maintain trust as a fact checker. 

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Shayan Sardarizadeh
https://x.com/shayan86


BBC Verify
https://www.bbc.com/news/reality_check



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QAA was known as the QAnon Anonymous podcast.


SOURCES

The Onion: Factual Error Found On The Internet
https://theonion.com/factual-error-found-on-internet-1819566445/

Nieman Lab: Readers are more suspicious of journalists providing corrections than journalists providing confirmations
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/08/readers-are-more-suspicious-of-journalists-providing-corrections-than-journalists-providing-confirmations/

Rolling Stone: Right-Wingers Heartbroken by Picture of Little Girl Who Doesn’t Exist
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/ai-girl-maga-hurricane-helene-1235125285/

Washington Post: Viral attack on Walz features fake former student making false claim
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2024/10/21/tim-walz-matthew-metro-video/

Newsweek: Gaza War Death Toll Passes 43,000, Palestinian Health Ministry Reports
https://www.newsweek.com/gaza-war-deaths-surpass-43000-palestinian-health-ministry-reports-1975910

BBC: False claims of staged deaths surge in Israel-Gaza war
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67760523

UN News: Rights expert finds ‘reasonable grounds’ genocide is being committed in Gaza
https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/03/1147976

United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights: Türk says world must act as darkest moment of Gaza conflict unfolds
https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/10/turk-says-world-must-act-darkest-moment-gaza-conflict-unfolds


Everyone Hates Fact Checkers (E299)

Cursed McDonald’s humiliation rituals, secret messages sent through a filet-o-fish, Elon posting a QAnon News Network meme, UFO disclosure in congress, and Tucker Carlson being attacked by a demon in his sleep. Sit down and eat, children.

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Springtime for QAnon (E302)

Conspiracy theories, melted online communities and cursed media — we pry open the cracks in consensus reality and journey into the hidden worlds below. The QAA Podcast is a mix of reporting, comedy, and history hosted by Jake Rockatansky, Travis View, and Julian Feeld along with co-hosts Annie Kelly, Liv Agar and Brad Abrahams. Formerly known as the QAnon Anonymous podcast.