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From: S. maltophilia	12/20/2025 10:38:57 PM
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How to Treat Purveyors of Baseless Speculation Don’t log off. Keep score. By Graeme Wood December 19, 2025, 2:56 PM ET For three days before police identified the Portuguese man who apparently killed two Brown University undergraduates and an MIT professor, a certain squalid sector of social media was astir with one question: Where is Mustapha Kharbouch? Kharbouch, a Brown undergraduate and Palestinian activist, was floated as a culprit by @0hour1, an anonymous X account with 270,400 followers. Others claimed that Kharbouch was “ allegedly, possibly … a suspect” (whatever that means), and amateur forensic podiatrists reported a “97.8% gait match” between Kharbouch and the killer. The Agence France-Presse has a roundup of prominent figures who amplified suspicion of Kharbouch, including the podcaster Tim Pool and the financier Bill Ackman. Brown took down, without explanation, webpages that mentioned... theatlantic.com

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