Check this out, you guys. We're all conspiracy theorists now!
"The unraveling of a suspected international pedophile ring"?!?!
Who are you, NBC News, a QAnon crazy?
You've been drinking that Trump Kool Aid, haven't you?
I mean, look at this reporting:
Almost 100 people in the United States and Australia have so far been arrested over child sexual abuse allegations after the fatal shooting of two FBI agents led to the unraveling of a suspected international pedophile ring, officials announced Tuesday.
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) said that 19 men had been arrested on charges of sharing child abuse material online, while at least 13 children were rescued from further harm as a result of a joint operation with the FBI, dubbed "Operation Bakis."
The development brought the total number of people arrested as part of the joint probe up to 98, with at least 79 arrests so far carried out by the FBI, according to the Australian agency.
Are we sure this is NBC's website and not Alex Jones' Infowars or something?
I'm gonna check….
Goodness, this is NBC — and this ain't good. Think about it, we could have an entire country full of deranged conspiracy theorists if journalism such as this is allowed on the pages of mainstream corporate news. And we'd never want that.
Funny how this keeps happening tho!
More from the conspiracy theorists at NBC:
The joint investigation began after the two FBI agents investigating the alleged pedophile ring were fatally shot in 2021 while executing a search warrant in Sunrise, Florida, for a man suspected of being in possession of child abuse material, the agency noted in a news release.
Special Agents Daniel Alfin and Laura Schwartzenberger were fatally shot and three other agents were wounded, while the gunman, David Lee Huber, 55, was also killed, NBC News previously reported.
The Australian agency said the coordinated probe was formally launched in 2022 after the FBI provided the Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation with intelligence about Australian individuals suspected of being part of a "peer-to-peer network allegedly sharing child abuse material on the dark web."
You know what, I'm dropping the act. Good for these agencies for coming together like this (and prayers for those who were lost). It's nice to know there are still some good people over at the FBI. I know we like to say that the FBI are the bad guys, but that doesn't mean there aren't some really good people over there fighting the good fight. There is still hope, people.
Most of the Australian suspects were employed in occupations that required a high degree of knowledge on internet networks, the agency said.
"Members used software to anonymously share files, chat on message boards and access websites within the network," it said.
Some were also accused of having produced their own child abuse material to share with members of the network, the agency said.
"Viewing, distributing or producing child abuse material is a horrific crime, and the lengths that these alleged offenders went to in order to avoid detection makes them especially dangerous — the longer they avoid detection the longer they can perpetuate the cycle of abuse," Australian Federal Police Commander Helen Schneider said in a statement.
This joint probe has brought in nearly 100 sex traffickers.
Let's hope they double, triple, quadruple that number!
