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ere's Olivia Jade Giannulli's fake athletic profile listing her as a champion coxswain

#LoriLoughlin #MossimoGiannulli #Conspiracy #USC  The fake athletic profile that portrayed Olivia Jade Giannulli as a gold medal-winning crew coxswain and helped her gain admission to USC was included in a legal filing by prosecutors Friday in the college admissions scam. The profile lists Giannulli's skill set as "awareness, organization, direction and steering" and says that "she is highly talented and has been successful in both men's and women's boats." The profile also says she won two gold medals in the San Diego Crew Classic in 2014 and 2016, and it says she participated in Boston's Head of the Charles regatta in 2016 and 2017. But those accolades are false, and she did not actually participate in crew competitively, prosecutors have said. They say that the athletic profile was created by scam mastermind Rick Singer and his associates as part of a scheme to get Giannulli into USC as a fake athletic recruit, a strategy that he called th...

The flat-Earth conspiracy is spreading around the globe. Does it hide a darker core?

#FlatEarth #DavidWeiss #CNN #Conspiracy "I don't want to be a flat Earther," David Weiss says, his voice weary as he reflects on his personal awakening. "Would you wake up in the morning and want everyone to think you're an idiot?" But Weiss is a flat Earther. Ever since he tried and failed to find proof of the Earth's curve four years ago, he's believed with an evident passion that our planet is both flat and stationary -- and it's turned his world upside down. "I absolutely freaked out," Weiss tells CNN in a phone interview. "It literally whips the rug out from underneath you." Now, Weiss finds it tedious to associate with the majority of people -- though he "unfortunately" still has some friends who believe in a round Earth. "I have no problem with anybody that wants to believe we live on a ball. That's their choice," he says. "It's just not something I resonate with." Weiss...