alex jones

  • 35 Secret Code Words Facebook Uses to Talk About Its Users and Tools

    35 Secret Code Words Facebook Uses to Talk About Its Users and Tools

    One of the most surreal parts of going through the mountain of documents captured from within Facebook’s walls by whistleblower Frances Haugen is seeing the words employees use when discussing some of the company’s most sensitive products and systems. Many of these names (CORGI! Yoda!) sound deceptively cute, while others sound more… sinister.


  • QAnon, CultTok, and Leaving It All Behind

    QAnon, CultTok, and Leaving It All Behind

    “I was impressed that it only took four years,” Danielle, self-identified ex-cult member, 34, said on a phone call. This was a few days after Joe Biden’s inauguration, and we were talking about the previous week of SOS social media posts from wide-eyed QAnon followers, like a TikToker propped up on a pillow, pleading, like…