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Reporter’s notebook: Scientology’s latest intimidation attempt is sadly familiar

This isn’t the kind of story that we prefer to write, as our longtime readers can attest. But sometimes, circumstances arise which are hard to ignore. To explain what we mean, we first want to talk a little about Scientology’s goofy propaganda magazine, […]

Scientology ‘disconnection’ billboard to be a block from David Miscavige’s office & residence

Yesterday we took this photo of the current billboard standing on Hollywood Boulevard just east of La Brea Avenue, which features a message from the Air Force Reserve. But not for long. On March 22, Phil and Willie Jones want you to be there as they officially unveil their Scientology ‘disconnection’ billboard at this location, […]

BACK ON: Scientology ‘disconnection’ billboard OK’d by competitor after Outfront Media bails

Phil Jones needed just half a day to rebound from the disappointing news that Outfront Media had rescinded the contract he signed for a three-month, $8,200 billboard in Hollywood that would highlight Scientology’s “disconnection” policy. […]

There’s a backstory to the recent news of a Scientology TV ad being banned in the UK

[The claim that got this 2015 Scientology ad banned.]

When we saw the news last week that the U.K.’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) had banned a Scientology television commercial, we immediately assumed that we knew who had made the complaint about the ad that eventually got it taken […]

Scientology snags a TV news host, and other social media finds around the world

[Mauricio Clark, Scientology’s new get?]

Time again for Rod Keller’s Scientology Social Media Review! Rod goes way back, having kept a meticulous eye on the church since 1992. He’s well known for his indispensable “ARS Week in Review,” which ran for nine years when ARS — the Usenet newsgroup alt.religion.scientology — was the most important daily […]

Outfront Media rescinds contract for Scientology ‘disconnection’ billboard in Hollywood

After he signed a three-month, $8,200 contract for a billboard about Scientology with the Los Angeles office of Outfront Media, former Scientologist Phil Jones has learned that the New York head office of Outfront — formerly CBS Outdoor — canceled the contract without […]

Scientology officials panicked about overdose death of star Narconon pupil: Boyfriend

In November, we told you about the death of Tabatha Lynn Fauteux, a 26-year-old New Hampshire woman who was found dead in a Los Angeles apartment, apparently of a drug overdose. She had been staying at the apartment with a boyfriend for several weeks while the two of them underwent training in the Church of […]

Scientology, in forced-abortion case: It’s not abuse if you don’t complain when it’s happening

Bert Deixler

On Monday, Scientology attorney Bert Deixler filed the church’s final salvo at Laura DeCrescenzo before Monday’s crucial hearing in her forced-abortion lawsuit.

In 2009 Laura filed her lawsuit, and one of its main arguments was that since she had left Scientology’s Sea Org in 2004, she had come to a different understanding […]

EXCLUSIVE: Lawrence Wright’s Scientology epic ‘Going Clear’ finally getting U.K. release

Three years after it was first published in the U.S., Lawrence Wright’s monumental book Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief will be published in the U.K. for the first time on March 17 by Silvertail […]

APPEALS COURT STRIKES SCIENTOLOGY’S $1 MILLION JUDGMENT AGAINST KEN DANDAR

In a unanimous decision, a three-justice panel of the Florida 2nd District Court of Appeals has struck down a $1 million judgment Scientology had won against attorney Ken […]

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