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In October 2022, I published a five-part investigative series for Snopes that exclusively documented the inner workings of a massive empire of online scams tied to entrepreneur Max Polyakov. The story, a follow up to a February 2020 investigation, follows the money derived from these schemes to a Scottish aerospace company named Skyrora Ventures. 

In April 2018, a seemingly simple question first presented itself to us: Why would the official Cheech and Chong Facebook page be sharing memes that not-so-subtly advertised bogus hook-up sites such as plentyofhoes.com? […] In this two-year investigation, Snopes follows the money from these deceptive dating companies to the Menlo Park office of a man whose private space company was awarded a bidding opportunity by NASA to build landers for future missions to the Moon.

By combining a sometimes second-by-second chronology of which users shared Facebook invites to the protests with hundreds of pages of campaign-finance records and local news reports, Snopes demonstrates that the Michigan anti-lockdown movement was originally pushed by a small circle of fervent activists who have been protesting almost constantly since well before the onset of the pandemic.

Exposing The Epoch Times-Linked “The BL”

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