Instead, the blogger sent a link to an article from this past July on another conspiracy website, “American Digital News.” It reprinted the same list, again without a source. I’ll see if I can track the source.” Gags could not find the source. Run by an editor who goes only by “Gags,” the site describes itself as “the voice of one of many Conservatives shadow banned by Facebook and Twitter crying into the wilderness.” Gags, however, did not know where the list came from. 25, 2019, on a conspiracy website called Common Sense Evaluation. The earliest known version appeared on Aug. The Daily Beast found versions of the fake log dating back to nearly a year before the anonymous poster included it in their drop. 4577.īut the supposedly well-sourced secret agent Q was a little late to chase. That intensified on July 2, when the fake list appeared in one of those Qdrops: No. In the time since Epstein’s arrest and subsequent death, QAnon adherents have upheld the billionaire pedophile’s vast network of abuse as proof their suspicions were right all along. Proponents believe these missives, called “Qdrops,” reveal a secret plot led by President Trump to unravel a global pedophile network run by D.C. In the past month, references to the fake log have skyrocketed, particularly among adherents of QAnon-the baseless conspiracy theory that a secret agent known as “Q” has been leaking intelligence by way of cryptic messages on anonymous message boards. Evidently faced with an impossible choice, the list-writer added Akon and Katy Perry with both their stage and real names: “Akon (Aliaume Damala Badara Akon Thiam)” and “Katy Perry (Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson).”Īkon, Alec Baldwin, Anderson Cooper, Barack Obama, Ben Affleck, Beyonce Knowles, Bill Murray, Charlie Sheen, Chelsea Handler, Chrissy Teigen, Courtney Love, Demi Moore, Gwen Stefani, James Franco, Jim Carrey, Jimmy Kimmel, John Cusack, John Legend, Kathy Griffin, Katy Perry, Eminem, Michelle Wolf, Oprah Winfrey, Pharrell Williams, Quentin Tarantino, Robert Downey Jr., Seth Green, Jay-Z, Lady Gaga, Steven Spielberg, Steven Tyler, Stephen Colbert, Tom Hanks, Wanda Sykes, Will Ferrell, Will Smith, and Woody Allen. Lady Gaga, for example, appears under her legal name, “Stefani Germanotta,” while John Legend shows up under his stage name. Barack Obama is spelled “Barak Obama.” Stephen Colbert is “Steven Colbert.” Ron Burkle is “Ron Burke.” Joe Pagano is “Joe pagino.” The list-writer also had a loose sense for formatting. As Morris implied, it is supposed to be a flight log detailing the high-profile figures who flew on the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s private jet, dubbed “The Lolita Express.”īut at first glance alone, the list raises several red flags. The text appears on a light purple background, resembling the layout of the neo-Nazi-friendly imageboard site 8kun, formerly known as 8chan. The screenshot features a list of 124 names-many of them famous: Beyoncé, Eminem, Chrissy Teigen, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, to name a few-typed in three columns. And again, under an Entertainment Tonight Canada article from March titled “Eminem Gushes Over Daughter Hailie.” An image search for the graphic turned up similar lists under a HuffPost video of Beyonce’s commencement address, an interview with then-presidential candidate Andrew Yang, and archival footage of a Tom Brokaw speech from 1973. Here it is again beneath a Forbes piece on the #OscarsSoWhite scandal. A month earlier, when Ben Affleck urged residents of New York, Kentucky, and Virginia to vote in their primaries, a user left it in the comments. The tweet has since been deleted, but the screenshot remains all over the internet, often under posts by or about celebrities. Morris replied with a fuzzy screenshot of a list, adding: “Let’s talk about why she’s on the #EpsteinFlightLogs.” But for a Twitter user in the comments-a YA author named Kate Morris, who claims her apocalyptic romance novels were inspired after “Reagan came to in a dream”-the post belied something more sinister. On the last day of July, Billboard tweeted an article titled: “5 Crowning Achievements in Beyoncé’s ‘Black is King’ Film.” The piece was a basic reaction roundup and the promotional tweet was equally innocuous.
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