Nancy Cartwright, who is a long time member of the Church of Scientology, has created a recording using her voice of Bart Simpson. The message surfaced early Wednesday morning on YouTube. During the message, Nancy states that “This is a special message” and announces an upcoming event for Scientology at the Hollywood and Highland Center [...]
A teenager, belonging to the anti-scientology group Anonymous, has admitted that he launched a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on the official website of the Church of Scientology, scientology.org.
Dmitriy Guzner, aged 18, will admit to the charges related to carrying out the DDoS attack. He now faces a maximum sentence of ten years imprisonment.
In [...]
The video sharing website YouTube has removed several anti-Scientology videos following threats of legal action. Wikinews found that at least 11 videos have been removed from the site following Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) notices served on YouTube by Dr. Oliver Schaper, Scientologist and self-described advocate of the Church of Scientology’s rights to free speech. [...]
Internet rumors that talk show host Oprah Winfrey has been found dead in her Chicago, Illinois home are considered to be a hoax, connected with the online group known as Anonymous.
Other reports say that the website 4chan.org is responsible for starting the rumor which began to spread quickly over the internet.
The rumors started after a [...]
On September 4 and 5, at least 4,000 anti-Scientology videos were removed from the video sharing website, YouTube. The videos removed were done so by a single Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) notice by an alleged ‘rights group’ called the American Rights Counsel LLC, which Wikinews has confirmed, does not exist beyond the scope of [...]
The Church of Scientology in France has been accused of “organized” fraud and will be facing a court trial. According to a report published by Agence France-Presse (AFP), seven other Scientologists will be charged with illegally prescribing prescription medication. If found guilty, Scientology could be banned in France.
According to the report, the charges [...]
According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a rights group called the American Rights Counsel LLC has attempted to have at least 4,000 anti-Scientology videos removed from the video sharing website YouTube. Upon further investigation, Wikinews found that most videos and clips were added to YouTube by the copyright holders of the material; as DMCA [...]
The Internet-group code named “Anonymous” has released a new video on YouTube, outlining a new phase in what they call the “War on Scientology”.
According to a press release sent by the anti-Scientology website whyweprotest.net, two videos — Reclamation : Phase Three and Message to Anonymous and our Allies — were posted to YouTube [...]
The United Kingdom-based human rights group Liberty and the City of Edinburgh Council in Scotland have weighed in on the right of critics to call Scientology a “cult” at peaceful protests. After a 15-year-old boy refused to remove a sign calling Scientology a “cult” at a May 10 protest in London, City of London Police [...]
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) of the government of the United Kingdom told the City of London Police on Friday that there will be no prosecution for a 15-year-old boy who called Scientology a “cult” at a May 10 peaceful protest. The City of London Police had previously confiscated the boy’s protest placard and gave [...]
News media in the United Kingdom are reporting that a boy under the age of 18 was served with a court summons by City of London Police because he held a placard calling Scientology a “cult” at a peaceful protest on May 10. Human rights activists have criticized the decision to issue the 15-year-old the [...]
Controversy has arisen over the reported presence of blue asbestos on the MV Freewinds, a cruise ship owned by the Church of Scientology. According to the Saint Martin newspaper The Daily Herald and the shipping news journal Lloyd’s List, the Freewinds was sealed in April and local public health officials on the Caribbean island of [...]
Wikinews has obtained ‘Operating Thetan’ (OT) documents of the Church of Scientology which were leaked via Wikileaks. Although some portions of the manual have been leaked previously, this is believed to be the first time the full unedited version has been leaked.
The 612-page manual for Scientologists written by L. Ron Hubbard contains instructions for the [...]
While protesting outside the Scientology Church of Georgia in Atlanta, two members of the group Anonymous were arrested by DeKalb County riot police while standing opposite the Church of Scientology-owned building.
The two protesters, who earlier on participated in the delivery of a ‘global speech’ collaboratively written and read by members of Anonymous at protests worldwide, [...]
The Internet group Anonymous today held protests critical of the Church of Scientology.
Location reports…
Adelaide, Australia
News.com.au reported that approximately 200 masked protesters gathered outside of the Church of Scientology’s headquarters in Adelaide. An anonymous spokesman told News.com.au that their group feels Scientology should not have tax-exempt status, and should not be considered a religion. At one [...]
The Church of Scientology’s second petition for an injunction against online protest group Anonymous was denied by Judge Douglas Baird. The first petition filed Tuesday against Anonymous was denied by yesterday Judge Linda Allan. The injunction sought to prevent members of Anonymous from coming within 500 feet of Church of Scientology buildings. At time of [...]
On Sunday, Wikinews interviewed creator of memorial site LisaMcPherson.org, former Lisa McPherson Trust employee and long time Scientology critic Jeff Jacobsen.
LisaMcPherson.org is a memorial site created in 1997 containing information on her death and the resulting legal case against the Church of Scientology.
Lisa McPherson died in 1995 while in the care of the Church of [...]
Television producer and owner of the anti-Scientology website XenuTV.com, Mark Bunker, also known as Wise Beard Man, chatted online with Wikinews for nearly three hours. More than 120 people followed the interview live (many from Project Chanology), which makes this exclusive Wikinews interview our most attended IRC interview to date.
Bunker started XenuTV in 1999 and [...]
In an interview with Wikinews reporter Nicholas Turnbull, prominent free speech activist and critic of Scientology David S. Touretzky gave his opinion on the recent backlash against the Church of Scientology that has erupted on the Internet, recently spurred on in declarations by a nebulous Internet entity using the name Anonymous that the organization will [...]
The niece of the Church of Scientology’s top leader David Miscavige has come forward publicly with criticism of the organization and of Scientology practices. Jenna Miscavige Hill, daughter of David Miscavige’s older brother Ron Miscavige, described Scientology policies which broke apart her family and continue to keep members of her family from talking to each [...]
A protest against the Church of Scientology organized by the Internet-based group “Anonymous” held in Orlando, Florida drew 100 people on Saturday.
The group “Anonymous” formed a movement called Project Chanology in response to what it views as suppression of freedom of speech on the Internet by the Church of Scientology. The group was initially motivated [...]
Claiming that “actions are being taken”, a person replying to emails to the Church of Scientology has responded exclusively to Wikinews regarding the recent attacks on their web sites from the nebulous “Anonymous” group. In an effort to get the Church’s side of the story, Wikinews freelance journalist Brian McNeil located a contact address. A [...]
The Internet-based group “Anonymous” released a new video on YouTube Monday, announcing international protests outside Church of Scientology centers set for February 10. The video “Call to Action” uses the same computer synthesized voice as a previous video titled “Message to Scientology”, which was posted to YouTube last Monday. The “Message to Scientology” video has [...]
Administrators for 711chan.org, one of the websites responsible for starting Project Chanology, a “raid” or attack against the Church of Scientology and their website, slowed down their “attack”.
In an exclusive interview with Wikinews, an administrator of 711chan states that the will “probably stay away from the CoS [Church of Scientology].”
“We’re probably just going to stay [...]
An as-yet unheard of entity calling itself The Regime gained access to 711chan.org, a site popular with hacker group “Anonymous.”
The hacker/s first posted a message (below) saying that “This site has not been blessed by The Regime and is deemed lame.” It also refers to Anonymous’s attempt to bring down the Church of Scientology (operation [...]
The Internet-based group “Anonymous” has released statements on YouTube and via a press release, outlining what they call a “War on Scientology”. Church of Scientology related websites, such as religousfreedomwatch.org have been removed due to a suspected distributed denial-of-service-attack (DDoS) by a group calling themselves “Anonymous”. On Friday, the same group allegedly brought down Scientology’s [...]
