Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 2, 2026
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is not trying. And I think it's trying this year. Oh, is it trying. We've had more news this year than all the other years put together, multiplied by three. Let's talk about some of that news today. The headlines on Fox News are all a bunch of fake news. So Fox has gone full fake news on the Bill Clinton Epstein island stuff. And here's what I mean by fake news. Do I know if Bill Clinton was eve…

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tuation. That's not a "well, she got one wrong before, but that doesn't mean she's wrong about everything else." No, it's a zero. It's a zero credibility. Which doesn't mean it didn't happen. Remember, we live in an anything's-possible world where candidates for president can be bitten by a possibly rabid bat. So nothing's off the table. I'm just saying that if you run this story without very prominently saying the only evidence has zero credibility, that's just fake news.

So if you think your fake news is only coming to you from the left, there's a prime example of Fox News faking it up for you. And again, the news is accurate, but leaving out that context just turns it into fake news in my opinion.

So here's a story that should worry the hell out of you. One of my followers — and might be on this Periscope right now, D D Texas Grandma, 65, grandma spelled G M A — noted that she was following me but then somehow got unfollowed, so automatically unfollowed. So this prompted me to circle back to a story that I'd been talking about maybe a year ago. I can't remember in which I noticed that I had been unfollowed from Ambassador Grinnell, Richard Grenell. Now I don't know what title you would give him — ex-ambassador, or do you still call them ambassadors after they're not ambassadors? I don't know what the rule on titles is, but you know what I'm talking about. He was acting DNI for a while. But I had been unfollowed from him, I think twice. And so a year ago I'd asked if other people had been unfollowed, and it turns out there was a massive number of people in the comments who said, "Oh yeah, I just checked. I was totally following him and now I'm not."

So I decided to recheck that. So a year has gone by, just to see if it's still happening. And sure enough — I don't know if it's like a new wave of unfollows or if it's still some trickle from the past — but once again my comments were filled with people who said, "What the — I was following but now I'm not. And now I had to follow him back again." And so I thought I would just test one more account, just to see if I could guess somebody who is likely to have the same situation. And the criteria I used was, okay, what is it about Ambassador Grenell — again, I don't know how the titles work for ambassador, but let's say he's always an ambassador if he ever was one. Let's go with that standard. So I thought, you know, what does he have in common, or what is there about him that would make him a target for this? And the obvious answer is that he's an unusually good public spokesperson supporting President Trump. And I thought, all right, well I'll pick somebody else who is in that category of an unusually good communicator in favor of President Trump.

So I did a second tweet this morning asking people how many had been unfollowed from Matt Gaetz, Congressman Gaetz. And turns out a lot. A lot. Now keep in mind the people who are answering are just the people who see my Twitter feed and also followed Matt Gaetz and also saw that tweet and also checked and also thought to put a comment about it. So if I can turn up that many people in 60 seconds who say, "Oh yeah, that happened to me," is it possible they're all imagining it? I mean, it is possible, by the way. It is possible. It is completely within the realm of possibility that we're all imagining it. But I don't think so. I don't think so. It would be quite shocking if it were the case, but actually you can't rule it out.

I'm going to give you another hypothesis which I also do not rule out, but I think it could be ruled out pretty quickly if I just ask people on Twitter. And it goes like this. At least one person has had the following experience on an Android device. And the claim is this: that there's something about the app runn

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ing on an Android device — and I don't know if it's every Android device, every release, I don't know if it's the app or if they're using the browser to get to it, so there's a lot I don't know. But the claim is this, and you've had this experience. Have you ever had the experience where you're in some kind of an app — it doesn't have to be Twitter — and you go to click something and just before y…

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