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White House App Found Tracking Users' Exact Location Every 4.5 Minutes via Third-Party Server
(www.ibtimes.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 29 Mar 2026
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its gotta be hard to be a conspiracy theorist nowadays where every theory turns out to be true
I wish any of the conspiracy theorists theories are the real theories.
They are all into pizzagate and flat earth, and not "huh, I bet the government's app is a peice of shit that's tracking me"
hey i'm a bigfoot truther. his name is larry and he's real into hugs
i mean that's it. we don't really have much beyond he sings like a moose that one time we let him use the shower. WHICH WAS A MISTAKE HE CLOGGED THE DAMN THING. but he sang like a moose.
There's a lot of that, it is just that typical media does not cover them as they are not "interesting". Like, there was a Surrounded debate where they brought a lot of conspiracy theorists with one journalist, and iirc they only talked about one topic regarding the government, rest was just flat earth, aliens etc.
There are a lot of theorists that claim how much the government is lying about things, manipulating the masses etc, most of which is slowly coming true.
On a side note, if you have played GTA SA, you must have seen The Truth talking so much nonsense. I would like to share this as I have always found this very funny.
CJ: What's with all the aluminum foil, man?
The Truth: Protection from mind control, dude.
CJ: Mind control?
The Truth: Induction of images, sound or emotion using microwave radiation. D'you know how many government satellites are watching any citizen at any moment?
CJ: No.
The Truth: Twenty three. Do you know how many religious relics are kept at The Pentagon?
CJ: No, I don't.
The Truth: Twenty three. You see a pattern emerging here, man?
CJ: Man, I'm seeing patterns all over the place! Get that smoke out of my face!
Hehe.
23, really? I wonder if the writers included a RAW reference intentionally or by accident.
Honestly, with this admin... I think pizzagate is one of those "every accusation is a confession" deals
Conspiracy theorists never actually believe in the actual conspiracies. No it's always the lamp posts broadcasting nanobots into your blood. And not that the phone that has tracking capabilities is tracking you, in fact no conspiracy theorist ever has ever been worried about their iPhone or billionaires sending plenty text emails to each other about to listen activities.
The only conclusion I can reach from your post is that you know absolutely nothing about "conspiracy theorists".
Thousands were banned from across the internet for questioning the official line about covid, meanwhile, it really was a lab leak. Just one example.
Different people have been wrong about conspiracies, others have been right about conspiracies; your "none have ever been worried about iPhone" claim is ludicrous. How do you come up with this? Why do you imagine random "factoids" with no basis in reality?
It's kind of scary
No conspiracy theorists aren't interested in seeking out actual conspiracies. They're trying to make themselves feel important in a world that doesn't care about them. So they find some special secret that only they know and that makes them feel important and claim the earth is flat.
As far as factoids are concerned where are you getting the evidence that COVID was a lab leak? That has never been confirmed.
Yeah, I thought the larger body of evidence all but proves that it was a wet market source.
It's only paranoia when you're wrong.
Is it paranoia though if they believe in a particular thing with no actual evidence and it just turns out that they're partially correct by chance?
Because there are plenty of conspiracies along the lines of "the government is monitoring everyone" but it's always been via nanobots in your blood or via psychic energies being emitted from 5G towers. It's never "the government to tracking me with this GPS enabled device that I voluntarily purchased with my own money, now excuse me I have to make a rambling geotagged Facebook post the Gray Aliens".
You are right. But my statement already includes these groups.
I don't see this information as being particu relevant. There are various boards and committees where half the people are government and half of them are from Google. From what I gather, Google more or less functions as the mass surveillance arm of the government, so a Government App serving this purpose would be redundant.