Typing "antifa.com" in your browser's URL window takes you to the donation page of Biden website
As evereyone knows, there are lots of wild rumors on the internet that turn out not to be true.
One of those wild rumors was that if you wanted to donate money to BLM, and went to their website and hit the "Donate" button, it took you to a site called "Act Blue," which is a fundraising arm for the Democrat party.
That "wild rumor" turned out to be absolutely true.
Now therre's another "wild rumor:" Antifa has a web page, but many conservative websites (Bizpacreview, for example) discovered that if you typed "Antifa.com" into your browser window, you got "redirected" to...the donation page for Joe Biden's official campaign website.
Being skeptical, on August 30th at 11:30 pm I tried it. Sure enough, it took me to the donation page of the Biden campaign's website.
Wow, so looks like yet another of those outlandish, impossible rumors turns out to be true, eh?
No one at either the campaign or at Antifa seems to want to talk about how this happened. And the real hoot is that even though this has been known since August 12th, no reporter has asked the Biden campaign whether this was deliberate, done with the approval of the campaign. Obviously if it's the result of deliberate coordination, it shows Team Biden is working closely with the charmless thugs of Antifa.
But it gets way weirder:
I stay the hell away from Fakebook, but I wanted to see if other people who typed "antifa.com" in the browser window got the same re-direct to the Biden website that I did. So I asked a friend to make a regular "timeline" post on Fakebook, asking her friends if typing "antifa.com" also took them to the donation page of Biden's campaign website.
Now here's the weird part: In composing her request to friends, when she typed in her normal timeline--NOT in the browser's URL window--"Try typing antifa.com in your browser window and see what happens," Fakebook went directly to the donation page of Biden's campaign website!
If you don't understand what I just wrote, I understand your confusion: Because my friend was NOT typing in the browser's URL window, Fakebook's software should not have taken her to the Biden campaign's donation page.
Again, she was NOT typing in the browser's URL window but was composing a timeline message, and yet when she typed "antifa.com" in that message, Fakebook took her to the Biden campaign website.
Now, Democrats in the Mainstream Media have suggested that the fact that typing "antifa.com" into the browser's URL redirects users to the donation page of the Biden campaign website could possibly be the result of someone hacking the Antifa website. After all, lots of websites don't have much security, and Antifa almost certainly doesn't have top people running their website.
But Fakebook is an entirely different matter. They presumably have really top-notch security, so it's highly unlikely that someone hacked their computers to change their code for timeline posts to re-direct to the donation page of the Biden website.
If Fakebook is linking Antifa to Biden like this, the Federal Election Commission needs to ask whether this was done with the full knowledge of the Biden campaign, or whether Fakebook just cooked up this ever-so-helpful link by themselves.
Finally, it gets even weirder: I asked my friend to re-try the timeline message to friends, to see if Fakebook's software would do the re-direct for any phrases that were just close to "antifa.com." A few tries didn't go to the Biden page. But then when I asked her to re-try the original name again, this time when she started to type "antifa.com," Fakebook changed the word, suggesting lots of other words beginning with "anti."
Only by closing Fakebook and then re-opening did Fakebook let her type "antifa.com" as part of a regular timeline text without changing the word--at which point her browser went to the donation page of the Biden site as before.
So: Try typing "antifa.com" in your browser's URL window, and see what happens. Then if you use Fakebook, try typing a regular timeline message to friends containing the word antifa.com, and see if your browser goes to the donation page of the Biden website.
If either of these things happens, I'd like to hear an innocuous explanation for HOW it happened.
One of those wild rumors was that if you wanted to donate money to BLM, and went to their website and hit the "Donate" button, it took you to a site called "Act Blue," which is a fundraising arm for the Democrat party.
That "wild rumor" turned out to be absolutely true.
Now therre's another "wild rumor:" Antifa has a web page, but many conservative websites (Bizpacreview, for example) discovered that if you typed "Antifa.com" into your browser window, you got "redirected" to...the donation page for Joe Biden's official campaign website.
Being skeptical, on August 30th at 11:30 pm I tried it. Sure enough, it took me to the donation page of the Biden campaign's website.
Wow, so looks like yet another of those outlandish, impossible rumors turns out to be true, eh?
No one at either the campaign or at Antifa seems to want to talk about how this happened. And the real hoot is that even though this has been known since August 12th, no reporter has asked the Biden campaign whether this was deliberate, done with the approval of the campaign. Obviously if it's the result of deliberate coordination, it shows Team Biden is working closely with the charmless thugs of Antifa.
But it gets way weirder:
I stay the hell away from Fakebook, but I wanted to see if other people who typed "antifa.com" in the browser window got the same re-direct to the Biden website that I did. So I asked a friend to make a regular "timeline" post on Fakebook, asking her friends if typing "antifa.com" also took them to the donation page of Biden's campaign website.
Now here's the weird part: In composing her request to friends, when she typed in her normal timeline--NOT in the browser's URL window--"Try typing antifa.com in your browser window and see what happens," Fakebook went directly to the donation page of Biden's campaign website!
If you don't understand what I just wrote, I understand your confusion: Because my friend was NOT typing in the browser's URL window, Fakebook's software should not have taken her to the Biden campaign's donation page.
Again, she was NOT typing in the browser's URL window but was composing a timeline message, and yet when she typed "antifa.com" in that message, Fakebook took her to the Biden campaign website.
Now, Democrats in the Mainstream Media have suggested that the fact that typing "antifa.com" into the browser's URL redirects users to the donation page of the Biden campaign website could possibly be the result of someone hacking the Antifa website. After all, lots of websites don't have much security, and Antifa almost certainly doesn't have top people running their website.
But Fakebook is an entirely different matter. They presumably have really top-notch security, so it's highly unlikely that someone hacked their computers to change their code for timeline posts to re-direct to the donation page of the Biden website.
If Fakebook is linking Antifa to Biden like this, the Federal Election Commission needs to ask whether this was done with the full knowledge of the Biden campaign, or whether Fakebook just cooked up this ever-so-helpful link by themselves.
Finally, it gets even weirder: I asked my friend to re-try the timeline message to friends, to see if Fakebook's software would do the re-direct for any phrases that were just close to "antifa.com." A few tries didn't go to the Biden page. But then when I asked her to re-try the original name again, this time when she started to type "antifa.com," Fakebook changed the word, suggesting lots of other words beginning with "anti."
Only by closing Fakebook and then re-opening did Fakebook let her type "antifa.com" as part of a regular timeline text without changing the word--at which point her browser went to the donation page of the Biden site as before.
So: Try typing "antifa.com" in your browser's URL window, and see what happens. Then if you use Fakebook, try typing a regular timeline message to friends containing the word antifa.com, and see if your browser goes to the donation page of the Biden website.
If either of these things happens, I'd like to hear an innocuous explanation for HOW it happened.
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