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On Day One, 2018’s Writers of the Future party betrays its connection to Scientology’s abuses

[Contest winners greeted on their first day at this week’s festivities.]

Sunday night, Scientology will put on its annual gala to celebrate the winners of the L. Ron Hubbard Writers and Illustrators of the Future Contest. As in past years, we’ll take a peek at some of the annual broadcast to see how many of the []

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Scientology TV was launched with a massive ad campaign — is it working?

 It’s been more than two weeks since David Miscavige premiered Scientology TV, a project he’s been working on for years. And not only is he spending a boatload for his TV channel — carried on DirecTV and a mess of apps — but it’s pretty obvious that the church has paid for a truly massive []

Scientology TV gives viewers a glimpse of the church’s most secret locations — but why?

 Scientology TV is still unwatchable, but since its debut more than a week ago, we’ve enjoyed keeping an eye on the reactions it’s generating on social []

Scientologists bombarded to attend Hubbard birthday events, and this is our favorite flier

 We’re getting pretty excited for tomorrow’s L. Ron Hubbard Birthday Event in Clearwater, Florida, when we expect that Scientology leader David Miscavige is going to reveal something about the church getting its own television []

Scientology turning to focus groups in anticipation of its TV ‘network’ premiering

 We spoke this weekend to Alexander, a New Yorker who last week participated in a focus group in Manhattan at a research company where he’s participated in other surveys in the []

Scientology TV is now installed at the Ideal Orgs — when do the rest of us get to see it?

[Scientology TV has a logo!]

For weeks, Scientologists have been told that this year’s L. Ron Hubbard birthday event will mark a huge new leap forward for the church, which we believe is a reference to the highly anticipated premiere of the church’s own television cable station. (LRH was born on March 13, 1911, but this []

Scientology bragging on how well its Super Bowl ad did is the best thing ever

 We want to thank our tipster who forwarded to us this gem from the International Association of Scientologists, bragging on the success of Scientology’s Super Bowl ad this []

Scientology set to turn Silicon Valley ‘Ideal!’ Here’s our first look from the grand opening

[Silicon Valley, Dave is in you]

Here we were, waiting for the Salt Lake City “Ideal Org” to open up any day now (UPDATE: It’s happening today!), and David Miscavige tries to sneak one past us! After years of intense fundraising, the “Silicon Valley” Ideal Org in Mountain View, California is ready for its grand opening, []

Scientology mag: Why aren’t you in Florida already dumping all that sweet cash?

 We want to thank Rasha for sending us another new issue of Scientology’s Source magazine, which once again is doing its best to sell church members on the idea of going to Florida to spend gobs of money so they can attain “Super []

How Scientology gamed Google to increase the effectiveness of its Super Bowl ad

 With its Super Bowl ad ‘Curious?’ nearing 1.2 million views, the Church of Scientology is no doubt pretty happy that the 30-second ad is now the most-watched video on its YouTube channel, just edging out an L. Ron Hubbard biographical spot that had a nine-year head []