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Tomlinson is a compulsive liar. He has been SWATed, he does have insane and cruel stalkers, but he was not SWATed 47 times. He lies about this because he gets instant media attention.

He attempted to hire Torswats on himself, who provided receipts proving the attempt. When confronted, rather than denying it, he said a forum had cloned his SIM card, in a way that was not possible.

Tomlinson is extremely litigious and has threatened to sue people who have brought this to light.



Got a source to back up this claim? That's a pretty serious accusation.


He doesn't deserve how he was treated but yeah he has been acting a bit strange through this entire thing. This podcast is a good treatment of the story: https://www.blockedandreported.org/p/episode-164-the-torture...

It also tells the story about how a Swedish man was accused of being the swatter based on no other evidence than an audio recording where he allegedly had a Swedish accent.




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