First of all, this happened 1 year ago.
Second, our friends at 4chan were responsible.
Oddly enough, those troublemakers have gone increasingly politically right, they really despise liberals and the left, and a lot of them are fans of President Trump.
And they are not reserved at all with their humor, which frequently goes into tasteless and off-color, to downright crude.
Right now, they are pestering the heck out of liberal Hollywood leftist Shia LaBeouf’s anti-Trump “He will not divide us” campaign. His idea was to post a flag with that slogan, and keep a camera on it for four years.
Because of 4chan, who has snatched his flag, replaced it with a MAGA hat, and done all sorts of mischief, he cannot even fly it in the US. So he took it to London, and guess what? He can’t fly it there, either.
One of his flags just had open sky as background, and they were able to *triangulate* its location by observing aircraft flying over it. Seriously good detective work.
You do not want to tick off 4chan.
In past, with just tiny amounts of information, they have tracked down pedophiles, animal abusers, and other scum, and turned them over to the police.
Love the efficient tenacity of weaponized autism! 36 hours to capture the flag in Tennessee and less than 24 to snatch it from Liverpool!
4chan also managed to determine the exact location where an Syrian rebel video was filmed and sent that information to (I think) the Russian government. They noticed the presence of radio towers in the video and used the reference points to determine the latitude and longitude of the terrorist training site. The area was bombed a short time later.
I love what they are doing with Shia LaBeouf’s flag. It sometimes doesn’t even last 24 hours before it is discovered.