2022-11-24 - Zachary Fishman of NewsGuard: Press inquiry: NewsGuard review of KiwiFarms.net

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From: Zachary Fishman
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2022 18:06:29 -0600
Subject: Press inquiry: NewsGuard review of KiwiFarms.net

Hello,

I'm Zack Fishman, and I'm a reporter with NewsGuard, a service that reviews news and information websites for credibility and transparency. These reviews are intended to help readers have more context for the news they read online.
I'm currently working on a review of KiwiFarms.net, and I have some questions about the site's content, moderation, and transparency practices, if someone is available to provide comment. I have listed my questions below:

1. Who/what owns KiwiFarms.net? My understanding is that Joshua Moon owns it through 1776 Solutions, LLC, but please confirm whether that is correct.

2. Does Kiwi Farms have a comment on why the site's ownership is not prominently disclosed on the site?

3. I noticed that 1776 Solutions, LLC was founded under the name "Final Solutions, LLC." Was this name a reference to the Nazi plan to genocide Jews?

4. I noticed that Kiwi Farms often encourages its members to be anonymous and leave no trace to their real identity, such as on the Register page. Why does the site push anonymity for its users?

5. How does Kiwi Farms handle its moderation? What kinds of content are removed from the site?

6. Following Cloudflare's recent refusal to service the site after many Kiwi Farms users harassed Clara Sorrenti ("Keffals"), leading to the site briefly being down, has the site changed its policies or other approaches to content moderation?

7. Large portions of Kiwi Farms are dedicated to harassing people, including Sorrenti and at least three people who died by suicide after receiving harassment from Kiwi Farms users — Chloe Sagal, Julie Terryberry, and Near. Why does the site allow harassment-related content? Does Kiwi Farms have a comment on its role in the harassment of these four people?

8. I found some examples of Kiwi Farms users apparently publishing false and misleading claims about issues including COVID-19, the 2020 U.S. election, and the Russia-Ukraine war:
  • In November 2022, "Random Internet Person" quoted a post by cartoonist Ben Garrison, who said: "He [Donald Trump] wants to make America great again, but he was unable to follow through because the 2020 election was stolen from him. Yes, I deny that election. Democrat operatives used 3rd-world nation style election fraud. The voting machines, the massive mail-in ballots, the ballot harvesting and drop boxes, and the the fact that Trump was drawing tens of thousands at rallies while unpopular Joe hid in his basement points to fraud. The long delays in the counting process enabled the Democrats to double-count votes for ‘D,’ while also allowing the delivery of ballots on pallets to put Biden ahead."

    There was not widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election that "stole" a win from Trump, and many of Garrison's examples of the supposed fraud are baseless conspiracy theories.
  • In October 2022, "Slack Jaw Hemoglobin" said: "Lucky for you that good old polyethylene glycol greased those MRNA delivered spike proteins up so they could make it past your deltoid and into your capillary system, wreaking havoc and causing microclots and permanent damage to your heart, lungs and brain. The added benefit of the reverse transcription to your DNA weakening your immune system is icing on the cake."

    Studies have found that spike proteins generated from COVID-19 mRNA vaccines do not damage the brain or other organs following vaccination. This user's claims therefore seem to be false.
  • In March 2022, "Miss Tommie Jayne Wasserberg" said: "the Azov battalion blew up the theater in Mariupol , blaming the Russians."

    Investigations by The Associated Press, Human Rights Watch, and other organizations all concluded that Russia was responsible for the bombing of the Mariupol theater that resulted in hundreds of civilian deaths. They also did not find evidence that the Azov Regiment was responsible for the attack.
Does Kiwi Farms have any comment about the accuracy of these claims, or about their appearance on the site? How does Kiwi Farms moderate the publication of false information, if it does at all?


As a heads up, we incorporate quotes from our correspondences into our published reviews, so this conversation should be considered on the record.

Thank you,
--
Zack Fishman
Staff Analyst
NewsGuard Technologies


From: Joshua Moon <josh@lolcow.llc>@lolcow.llc>
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2022 08:01:51 +0100
Subject: Re: Press inquiry: NewsGuard review of KiwiFarms.net

© 2021 Lolcow LLC is on the bottom of every single page. If you can't be bothered to look at the site to find answers to your questions, why would I bother to answer your hitpiece email?


From: Zachary Fishman
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2022 09:49:25 -0600
Subject: Re: Press inquiry: NewsGuard review of KiwiFarms.net

Hi Josh,

I asked my first question to learn from you how exactly the site is owned. So to confirm, is it true that Lolcow LLC owns the site, and that you are the sole owner of Lolcow LLC? If this is the case, I have a follow-up question in addition to my previous questions:

9. Do you believe that mentioning the owner of the website only in a copyright mark at the bottom of the page is a reader-friendly disclosure of the site's ownership?

Thanks,
Zack


From: Joshua Moon <josh@lolcow.llc>
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2022 16:53:43 +0100
Subject: Re: Press inquiry: NewsGuard review of KiwiFarms.net

uh, yea? Are you retarded or something? There's also the "Contact us", bottom of every single page:
<https://kiwifarms.net/misc/contact>

Zero ambiguity of how to get in touch if you're an average person and not a journo struggling to get through each day without eating their own shit in confusion.
 
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uh, yea? Are you retarded or something?
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I love you, Null.

Btw, does CNN show who owns them at every single page? No? Weird double standards.

Studies have found that spike proteins generated from COVID-19 mRNA vaccines do not damage the brain or other organs following vaccination. This user's claims therefore seem to be false.
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I love how they just skipped right past the blood clot issue.

That aside, if they wanted to write a decent hitpiece why did they pick two comments that are opinions, and one comment that is, at least, partially true? (and for the record, that post by the lolcow about Azov was sourced by testimonies of people allegedly there, which is more proof than the journo gave to debunk this)

Also, lol, they can't even get the correct reasoning Claudflare used to drop us. 0 research done.

Also, weird how angry they seem at the mere idea that Null urges people to be anons.
 
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In March 2022, "Miss Tommie Jayne Wasserberg" said: "the Azov battalion blew up the theater in Mariupol , blaming the Russians."

Investigations by The Associated Press, Human Rights Watch, and other organizations all concluded that Russia was responsible for the bombing of the Mariupol theater that resulted in hundreds of civilian deaths. They also did not find evidence that the Azov Regiment was responsible for the attack.
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Dude wants to use a Tooter quote to prove the farms are a source of propaganda... let that sink in. Using quotes from a lolcow to slam the very people who mock them.

10/10 journalism, no biases whatsoever Zack Fishman.
 
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From Wikipedia:

NewsGuard Technologies was founded in 2018 by Steven Brill and L. Gordon Crovitz, who serve as co-CEOs. Its current team include journalists such as the former publisher of The Wall Street Journal, the founder of The American Lawyer and CourtTV, as well as former editors at Reuters, the Associated Press, and the Chicago Tribune. Investors include the Knight Foundation and Publicis.[10] The NewsGuard extension is installed in browsers and warns users when they view content from what it considers fake news websites...

In January 2020, NewsGuard began notifying users that it would become a paid, member-supported browser extension in early 2020, while remaining free for libraries and schools. Early adopters would get a 33% discount on the price, paying $1.95/month (USD) or £1.95/month (UK). They plan to roll out new premium features, including a reliability score, and offer new mobile apps for Android and iOS. They reported ratings of "3,800 websites that account for 95% of engagement with news in the U.S., U.K., France, Germany and Italy."[22]

As of January 2021, NewsGuard says it has rated for more than 6,000 news sites that account for 95% of online engagement with news in the U.S., the U.K., France, Germany and Italy.
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Imagine paying $1.95 every month for an extension that warned you when you were at risk of viewing "fake news."

Also: Fishman, Brill & Crovitz:

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Thank god for the brave journos that literally saved Clara’s life from the attacks harassment doxingswatting HELPED AN EUNUCH DEGENERATE GRIFT 100k AND ENCOURAGE THE ILLEGAL DDOSING THAT CONTINUES TO THIS DAY OF A FREE SPEECH SITE
DO YOUR JOB YOU SHITHEAD JOURNO.
There’s more to life than degeneracy.
Now go back to your echochamber and tell your friends the good news.
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Zack Fishman comes in here asking like 10 questions and aggressively bringing up a single quote to back up his claim that vaccine side effects are false information yet the retard quotes misinformation about the farms having killed 3 trannies when it was the lack of support from their own kind that did them in. :roll:

Also sucking Keffals' stinkditch? I guess Zachary Fishman wanted some of that observability one can only get from simping for trannies.
 
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The problem with engaging with them is they will farm a resonse to use against you like that one article that had the saw reference.

Part of me would love to for null to have this dude on stream, so null can point to keffels pink pill boys shit. of course that would taint zack as a kiwifarmer
 
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Zack Fishman comes in here asking like 10 questions and aggressively bringing up a single quote to back up his claim that vaccine side effects are false information yet the retard quotes misinformation about the farms having killed 3 trannies when it was the lack of support from their own kind that did them in. :roll:
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One of them isn't even dead and faked his own death. There is no evidence that Byuu is actually dead except for "dude trust me" from a random person nobody even knew was his friend until he posted a gay document that's hard to believe and doesn't have much evidence anyway. Also nobody harassed him, his thread was 13 pages at the time of the alleged neckroping.
 
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