Another Baseless Conspiracy (Hint: Pedophile rings) (pizzagate)

submitted ago by Blacksmith21

Source: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ishmaeldaro/youtube-tom-hanks-qanon-conspiracy-videos

This Buzzfeed hit piece just came across the wires. The author, Ishmael Daro, attempted to contact Sara Ruth via Twitter here: https://twitter.com/SaRaAshcraft/status/1024069686529536001

If you were Hank's PR rep, wouldn't you be all over this? - "A representative for Tom Hanks did not immediately respond to a BuzzFeed News request for comment."

Relevance: Buzzfeed - "How YouTube Bolstered Another Baseless Conspiracy Theory About Pedophile Rings. The ever-growing QAnon conspiracy theory got a big boost from YouTube this week."

Posted on July 30, 2018, at 6:13 p.m. ET KGC-294 / Star Max / IPx

A baseless conspiracy theory once again shot to prominence on YouTube this week with top search results for “Tom Hanks” including several videos accusing the actor of being a pedophile.

Hanks is the latest target in the ever-growing QAnon conspiracy theory, which posits that powerful figures in government and in the entertainment industry are involved in an array of horrific crimes, including the ritualistic sex abuse of children. One of the YouTube videos about Hanks, which connects him to a “deep state” effort to undermine President Donald Trump, has been viewed more than 280,000 times in less than a week.

A search for Cemex, a Mexican construction company, also returned several results linking the company to pedophilia based on a discredited conspiracy theory about a “child sex camp” in Arizona.

The search results were first highlighted by NBC News reporter Ben Collins.

In response, YouTube said it was continuing to develop tools to counter misinformation on the platform.

“We’re continuously working to better surface and promote news and authoritative sources to make the best possible information available to YouTube viewers,” a YouTube spokesperson told BuzzFeed News.

The spokesperson noted that YouTube has added prominent “breaking news” and “top news” sections on its website that show users content from reliable sources following major events. The company also started including links to Wikipedia articles on some conspiracy videos.

“This work is still in its early stages, but as these tools start to apply more widely across YouTube, we believe they will make authoritative content readily available and help address these types of results,” the spokesperson said.

YouTube has long been a main online hub for conspiracy theorists. One of the most prominent news channels on YouTube belongs to Alex Jones, the founder of the conspiracy site Infowars, who has claimed that 9/11 was an inside job and that the Sandy Hook school shooting didn’t happen. In February, a video falsely describing a Parkland, Florida, shooting survivor as an “actor” made it onto YouTube’s list of promoted trending videos. Twitter / Via Twitter: @SaRaAshcraft

The claims about Tom Hanks can be traced back to a single Twitter user named Sarah Ruth Ashcraft, who has been claiming for months that the actor sexually abused her as a teenager while she was under “mind control.”

A representative for Tom Hanks did not immediately respond to a BuzzFeed News request for comment.

Ashcraft has leveled similar accusations of abuse against Hillary Clinton, her own father, and several other people and organizations. She has not provided any evidence for these claims, and she did not immediately respond to interview requests sent to her social media accounts Monday.

Ashcraft recently boasted of having increased her Twitter follower count by 20,000 after her claims were picked up by the wider online community of QAnon conspiracy theorists. She has previously said that her accusations against Hanks and others are true because “if the things I’m saying weren’t the truth, twitter would shut down my page.”

Twitter did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

InnocentAngels ago

I have to laugh every time they use Alex Jones as their example. Come on, how many of us believe that controlled operator. Too funny.

notagame ago

Hanks is the latest target in the ever-growing QAnon conspiracy theory, which posits that powerful figures in government and in the entertainment industry are involved in an array of horrific crimes

This is why QAnon pisses me off. Q came along late to the crusade. It's not his theory that powerful figures in government / entertainment are involved in horrific crimes. That theory came directly from Julian Assange's Wikileaks DNC email drop. It's reading those creepy crawly exchanges in code, seeing the Podesta bothers porno 'art' collection, finding out about spirit cooking, and throwing kids into the pool for entertainment that formulated its own conspiracy.

Fuck Q. Other than give us a series of wild goose chases to distract us from actual investigation, he's done nothing except play the pinata for the fake news media outlets.

SeeHear ago

Completely baseless... stupid buzzfeed

https://www.imgoat.com/v/130140

Podge512 ago

This is from the same Buzzfeed which promotes and defends child rape and child sex trafficking?

https://www.buzzfeed.com/jennyheineman/sex-trafficking-myths-sesta-fosta?utm_term=.ts3AELzE9j#.fgDD0XG07K

https://imgoat.com/uploads/afa34a7f98/130129.jpg

TrumpingCapitalist ago

Isaac Kappy said something about Tom Hanks a few days before this article was published on Periscope. Lots of activity popping out of LA all of a sudden.

RockmanRaiden ago

Yeah. We all know Arizona was discredited. Without an investigation and with a bulldozer...

Blacksmith21 ago

Another one we will never know about. Think about the LV Massacre. We hear NOTHING about it but a blip here and there.

I believe in another year, the AZ trafficking story will be a distant story, paling in comparison to what has been exposed.

YogSoggoth ago

John S. Johnson II. We hate him in Sarasota Florida. He made this awful monstrosity right next to the bay. Perverts from around the World come here and photograph each other looking up her skirt. He was fired by his Uncle, and dismissed from his fathers will. That would be his son in buzzfeed. Racine, Wisconson is the main center of this operation. The founder of buzzfeed is Jonah Peretti, and co-founded The Huffington Post, along with Kenneth Lerer, Andrew Breitbart and Arianna Huffington in 2005.[5] He left The Huffington Post in 2011 after it was bought by AOL for $315 million. Breitbart freaked out at what he discovered, and killed himself by drinking a glass of wine and walking across the street.

Blacksmith21 ago

AOL is owned by Verizon. As is Yahoo and others.

YogSoggoth ago

In 2013, Buzzfeed named "My Lips are for Blowing" as one of "21 Awkwardly Sexual Albums"; the Museum of Hoaxes subsequently reported there was no such album, and that the image of the album used in the Buzzfeed article had been lifted from a 2010 fictitious album cover design created by a blogger going by the name Estancia de la Ding Dong. Laugh, Dammit.

Cc1914 ago

Look what the author of that buzzfeed article tweeted https://twitter.com/iD4RO/status/1024057106712997895?s=20

YogSoggoth ago

He really is the mouthpiece of the pedos if you google him. Basically he is a nobody in the journalism world. His claim to flame is, are Justin Trudeau's eyelashes real? Woo ooo. Rupert Murdoch greenlighted that one.

Cc1914 ago

Haha 😂

YogSoggoth ago

Someone will probably think I made that up. All facts,unfortunately. Fox is not our friend. Fair weather friends in certain anchors, maybe. I understand the concept of keeping your job, and keeping your mouth shut, trust me. Everyone needs to start making insurance files with lots of copies in several locations, for quick distribution.

Blacksmith21 ago

It's like they are branding themselves in the forehead with giant P. Everyone who signed that letter should come under scrutiny.

Normal people don't side with a well-demonstrated pattern of behavior like that of Gunn's.

abcdefg222 ago

I stand with Sarah. She is a beacon of light and truth for survivors and I hear her brave testimony.

This will backfire against the media bc Sarah wakes people up in a daily basis.

Blacksmith21 ago

I'm with you 100%.

i_scream_trucks ago

If the things im saying werent the truth, twitter would shut down my page

Twitter shuts down whatever the fuck it likes and regularly shuts down FOR speaking the truth.

Bitch is batshit.

derram ago

https://archive.fo/VuhZc :

Sarah Ruth Ashcraft on Twitter: "Uh oh, looks like Ishmael may have chosen poorly... I wonder how many skeletons are in HIS closet? #Qanon #theGreatAwakening @POTUS @NSA @DHSgov @ICEgov #Pizzagate @Cernovich @LizCrokin @FionaBa47662575 @IsaacKappy @cronsell @CabalPunisher @LisaMei62 t.co/11YcqdUa1v"

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