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Fact Check: Netflix CEO Was NOT Busted with 13,000 files of Child Pornography

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Did Netflix CEO Reed Hastings get busted by the FBI on child porn charges? No, that's not true: This claim was published by a known fake news website and there is no evidence from local, state, or federal law enforcement that Hastings was arrested.

In fact, Hastings was interviewed by CNN on Thursday -- when the raid of his Santa Cruz, California, home was purportedly happening -- and he has been active on Twitter in the days since. The details of the false story appear to have been stolen from a December 2019 article about the arrest of the CEO of a Utah company.

The claim originated in an article published by TorontoToday.net on September 12, 2020 titled "Netflix CEO gets BUSTED with 13,000 files of CHILD PORNOGRAPHY - Toronto Today" (archived here) which opened:

We report, you decide.

I'm not convinced by this 'fact check' rag that Toronto Daily is a 'fake news site'. The examples they list are not convincing.

I'm not convinced by this 'fact check' rag that Toronto Daily is a 'fake news site'. The examples they list are not convincing.

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If the allegation is true, then it appears the website was set up for the purpose of presenting it.

There is no doubt that this skunk would be protected by ALL MEDIA, much as they suppressed the Monica Lewinski story until the previously little-known DRUDGE REPORT reported it.

It is just impossible, in my opinion, to know at this stage what this is about. So far the "TorontoToday.n*t site is still up, though responding slowly, so that makes me wonder if someone our OUR TEAM might be behind it.

JURY STILL OUT ON THIS, as far as I am concerned.

The "FACT CHECK", as you point out, is WORTHLESS.