Scrubbed news, $1MIL, Clinton Foundation, Tampa Bay Times, Politifact, Craigslist Founder, Ebay Founder
Ok, here goes.
First picked up on this from https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/1515874 about Tampa bay times removing a pedo article...
As the link above shows, an article about a pedo trail that led to a number of people domestically and internationally was available at the Tampa Bay Times...best we can tell a couple weeks ago by the OP.
Google cache says Dec 2nd, 2016, last cached
And archive.org failed to archive on December 18th, 2016
google:
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:1AYEUZptjF8J:beaches.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/crime/how-pedophile-trail-led-to-a-largo-man/1244304+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
https://archive.fo/nFrcX (found archive of cache content)
web.archive.org:
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The article has a lot of parallels to pizzagate: code speak, rabbit image, cannibalism, photos of kids
The same author, now at The Washington Post, wrote three articles (from a quick glance) about the 'absurdity' of Pizzagate, fake news, a few days after this Dec 6 and Dec 7 - not saying he removed it from the Tampa bay times himself, but the timing is key given the #pizzagate attention.
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Now, here's the bigger tie-in into Tampa Bay Times:
Craig Newmark of Craigslist donated $1mil to Poynter Journalism School to fight "fake news" in their ethics department. News breaks December 12th same time as heavy #pizzagate stuff. Remember the coinciding dates of the Tampa By Times article going missing - sometime between 12-2 and 12-18. Remember the three articles the author put out at Washington Post: 12-6, 12-7, 12-7...
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Poynter's chairman, Paul Tash, also runs Tampa Bay Times. So, Poynter gets the $, and the chairman runs both poynter and Tampa Bay Times, where the article went poof.
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Also: The TB Times subscriber-ship funds in part, Politifact, but is also funded by 'Democracy Fund'
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Poynter has also "partnered" with Democracy Fund
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Democracy Fund came out of Omidyar (Pierre Omidyar of Ebay, owner of The Intercept publisher First Look Media)
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Omidyar is a huge funder of the Clinton Foundation
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Omidyar and Newmark are the founders of two of the largest exchangers of goods online, I don't think it's a stretch to say that these two are not further than a phone call away.
So to sum up:
Scrubbed pedo article at a paper whose chair receives $1M 'gift' to his university's ethics program to fight fake news; conflict of interests for Politifact with same parent funding org, Omidyar, as the Clinton Foundation. Seems legit, right?
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Edit 1:
The new chair at Poynter is going to be Kelly McBride. The following needs more development, but she's a former/current staff member and a frequent contributor to NYT, Washington Post and a number of other outlets. She's extremely focused on ethics in journalism. Note the Washington Post tie-in to the current workplace of the above journalist posting several anti-Pizzagate articles whose Tampa Bay Times article was removed...more development to come.
Edit 2:
"The International Fact Checking Network" Initiated by Facebook and spear-headed by Poynter, IFCN, is funded by the above-mentioned, but is also funded by Open Society Foundations, a George Soros' Funding operation. And, it's been well established that Soros is a Clinton Foundation funder.
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Edit 3:
Newmark and Omidyar have a very tumultuous past when Ebay tried to take over Craigslist, and seems that it was even stealing tech from CL for which they were under investigation. It stands to reason why Newmark would make himself part of Poynter, which very clearly is funded by Omidyar. The details of Ebay selling its stake of CL stock were kept private
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Omidyar looks very...very sketchy from all the stuff that I'm reading. Lot's of money, lot's of funding organizations, lot's of ties all over the place, good philanthropic front with a very dark side. And, he's got roots in Hawaii that seem pretty suspect - having attended the same school as Obama and AOLs Steve Case (also a big funder). Coincidence that there's been a lot of posts here on Voat and on 8ch/Infinichan to suspect Hawaii activity? Hawaii's location and challenging terrain make it a good place to secret things/people away.
https://voat.co/search?q=Hawaii&sub=pizzagate&l=true
http://www.webcitation.org/6n4pDQZqT
tjarco ago
excellent work - you made this relevant to timeline of censorship
stunknife ago
I always had that movie in the back of my head when researching on this topic. It's so fucked up that the movie itself is now connected in a way.
stunknife ago
OP from the og post here. Fucking stellar work.
Le_Squish ago
If you like to shitpost
/v/Soapboxbanhammer and /v/ Soapdoxbanhammer are competing shitpost subs and they like new friends to play with.
Voat is the small town of online communities not a city like Reddit. Browsing /v/all is our main street and will give you a good idea of who is about town and where they hang out.
Orange_Circle ago
Didn't Craig's List get started as a homo-hook up sheet?
It still has a lot of perverted Daddy looking for Son type areas.
flyingcuttlefish ago
Thanks for this. I put it on my CF blog post on Omidyar . . . (makes it easier to find later)
https://cfgate.wordpress.com/2016/12/08/omidyar/
OrwellKnew ago
Here is an earlier dated (Nov 17 2013) piece discussing "NewCo" possibly a placeholder name for Democracy Fund(?)
https://cryptome.org/2013/11/rosen-1-percent.pdf
Lots of names mentioned ( Pierre Omidyar, Glenn Greenwald, etc) in there but I don't have time to investigate atm. Leaving for a Christmas party. Good luck and hope this may help!
sunajAeon ago
$1,000,000 sounds like payoff money
Cantilever ago
Not to mention all the whoring craigslist enables. I wouldn't be surprised if Craigslist is the marketing front for the kid fucking industry
TokyoJoe ago
I always wondered how they profit when everything is free, no advertising. No one works for free everything is about money.
n0etics ago
ad revenue or something similar would be one way
rodeo13 ago
I've been thinking we need to scour craigslist posts, especially in DC, and see what we come up with. I noticed several "daycare listings" that seemed sketch.
Trumpedupeconomics ago
Omidyar Foundation is strongly connected to "preventing" human trafficking as well
https://www.google.com/amp/www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2012/11/08/inside-ebay-billionaire-pierre-omidyars-battle-to-end-human-trafficking/?client=safari
ZalesMcMuffin ago
Tampa Bay Times is also the newspaper which sometimes covers the Church of Scientology's local antics (they own a huge chunk of Clearwater). Relevance? Unknown.
golly ago
Good work! Follow the money, it is exactly the thing that worries Podesta: https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/31874
n0etics ago
to further back up the claim, look at this post that got downvoted. The shills may change their tactic soon but for now they downvote things they don't want to see us talking about
golly ago
I hear you! I have personal down voters who down vote every single comment I make. Check my post history. Most have a minimum of -1.
They are trying to take away our ability to post (and freedom of speech) by taking away all comment contribution points. Once you go below 0 you can't post anymore. People have nothing better to do I guess.
Edit: the problem is that if you would have 55 points and 60 active comments, one single troll with a few hundred points can down vote all your comments and you won't be able to post anymore. We need to start up voting each other a lot more so shills and trolls down voting has no impact at all.
Le_Squish ago
That is why it is important for you guys to integrate into the wider voat community so you can acquire a healthy buffer.
n0etics ago
Ya, I'm in the same boat right now with not being able to down vote shills.
The problem is that it's dangerous to just hand out upvotes for the sake of allowing folks to downvote. If anyone plans to do that, make sure to look into the account a bit and make sure you aren't inadvertently helping a shill
golly ago
It is because many are new and only have 10 upvotes per day. But if we don't do it then trolls/shills could shut people up like they did before when lots of people were voted in big numbers below 0. We should be able to take care of shills/trolls ourselves here. The only way to do that is start being more generous so everybody can gain points which in turn makes it much harder to attack us by taking away points so we can't post and are forced to beg for upvotes or create new accounts.