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This feels a little too perfect and on the nose to me. It's possible that this was someone who did a whole lot of research on him and then hacked this website to inject historic posts. I'm a little worried that this will blow up in our faces.
Please didn't see this as some kind of defense of this man. He's an evil ass that needs to go away. I felt icky even typing that first paragraph, but this train has a lot of steam, and I'm worried about the tracks. I actually waited and debated a long time before posting this, cause I knew it wasn't going to be taken well by the community.
“Inject historic posts”
lol. This would be easily disproven and would be a criminal act. Republicans often make these kinds of ludicrous conspiracy claims and it always ends up being projection.
This is what they are referencing: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/19/politics/kfile-mark-robinson-black-nazi-pro-slavery-porn-forum/index.html
Judging by what they are saying, CNN KFile investigation bases their investigation mostly on "Robinson used ‘minisoldr’ all over the internet". They also claimed to have linked his email, which is slightly sus given that I doubt porn websites are into the habit of making them public. I tried to go over to the one they mentioned and no, it does not scream security, there are BBS better looking than that website, at least their login.
What seems to have motivated the investigation is that:
So I wouldn't be surprised if it's true, and I doubt CNN wouldn't be making those claims if they could be easily disprove as outright lies.
Right, That's what I meant by "Well researched". Someone looking to build this story could have gathered a whole bunch of his common sayings, his user name from other sites, historic information, etc, and using something like SQL injection, added posts that authentically look like they came from years ago. All the evidence they listed really could be handled that way.
Again, I hate this man. He is scum. But there is a slight fishy smell about this story that just makes me a little wary.
Can you do an SQL injection into the Internet Archive? Otherwise, I'm guessing Robinson's campaign could easily prove such a thing.
Most likely not. Are there historic matching posts in the archive? If so, that would pretty much completely allay my lingering suspicion.
Also, his campaign doesn't exactly seem to be the most tech savvy. They tried to blame this on AI Generated images, which doesn't even make sense as a possible attack vector for faking this kind of evidence. I doubt they even know about or understand internet archival sites.
I think there are likely a nonzero number of archived websites that Robinson's campaign could easily point to if they were able.
This is a guy who has said all kinds of horrific shit before. He didn't even deny making antisemitic claims on Facebook (he said they were misunderstood, but he didn't deny making them).
https://www.wral.com/story/nc-lt-gov-mark-robinson-downplays-past-remarks-about-jews-declares-israel-solidarity-week/21093457/
There is also a man who worked at a porn store who talked about Robinson as a regular customer and joke around with them. He would even bring in pizza.
https://www.theassemblync.com/politics/nc-election-governor-republican-mark-robinson-porn-allegations/
The most obvious explanation here is that a horrible guy is horrible and really into porn.