Unsurprisingly, Bellingcat has “confirmed” exactly none of this and whoever made the video has no connection to the BBC. The more interesting part is who’s been spreading this bit of low-rent fraud—and why.

The claim has spread like wildfire and been boosted by at least one MAGA Republican, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA). Relatedly, Donald Trump, Jr. pushed the conspiracy theory that Hamas’ weapons were supplied by the Taliban, after being abandoned by the U.S. military when it withdrew from Afghanistan in 2021. (There is no evidence for either of these claims.)

Trust MTG and the orange kumquat’s sperm to jump on the shitpost bandwagon asap … cause they have nothing better to do with their useless lives.

It did in parts of Canada. America just wasn’t paying attention.

Prior to Reagan allowing changes, buying back stock wasn’t allowed because it was seen as a manipulation of the stock market.

“Those who do not remember the past are doomed to repeat it.” George Santayana

Type “lemmy.world status” into DDG and it’ll show you.

Jfc. The fine should have been $1 mil with half going to the kid.

Yup. The fines should be 10-20% of profits for the time period, per charge, depending on the severity.

That would got their gd attention.

“Vengence is mine!” sayeth the gallowboob.

gallowboobs

hahahaha!

Crying reddit croc tears in no way helps your cause.

Being downvoted is not indicative of voters’ anger. It’s simply showing they don’t agree with you.

Pulling the victim card is revealing a shit-ton about you tho.

Government failure to protect citizens’ right to privacy is one of, if not thee, largest money-maker Big Tech was gifted. :/

Police departments enter the conversation. ;)

I miss the time of the late 90’s - early 00’s when creators threw their products out on the web for all to use freely. Products like this (and DBAN, etc) were the only way many of us could truly enjoy and use what the world wide web had to offer without the intrusion of Micro$oft and Apple gatekeepers’ monetization.

*sigh

Here’s an article that explains it well.

Stop grabbing that fancy coffee on his way to wor … er … oh right, he works from home.

Dunno how the poor dear will survive then.

/s

Never believe anyone who says size doesn’t matter.