Shane Cashman is the best-selling author of three books including Joyless Kingdom, The Fucking Lunatic, and Tales From the Inverted World. He is a staff writer for Timcast News where he has profiled Kanye West and Kari Lake—as well as investigated the Long Island Serial Killer and the lost Confederate gold in Georgia.
After the publication of the third segment in the Eliza Bleu series, Shane Cashman contacted Manuel Chavez, a name who had been reported as a one-time affiliate of a now-defunct public relations company. He has clarified his distance from the company and said he does not employ the tactics that had been previously reported on.
The company in question offered the normal services of a PR company but extended it to “Reputation Management tracking” by creating positive and negative social media campaigns. They would buy positive articles, postings, and accounts to promote people — but would also engage in negative campaigns against a target if the client requested it. Chavez said that they were essentially a group of “larpers” trying to copy the model of Black Cube and Redacted.
Chavez said he began associating with the people close to this company after delving into intricate, popular online puzzles and gaining some attention by allegedly solving them. He interacted with the people he believed created the puzzles and, according to him, felt like he’d eventually been taken hostage by their “hopium.”
Chavez says that he has spent years trying to expose the wrongdoings of people in that circle but keeps being lumped in with them despite these efforts. He told Shane Cashman that he ended up getting a restraining order against some of the people he used to interact with and that he ultimately moved to another state to escape the danger that he believed they posed to him.
He provided Timcast News with copies of the order.
The following interview is directly from the conversation between Cashman and Chavez after the release of Part III. Timcast News cannot independently verify many of the claims made by the subject at this time, but we have decided to present the discussion as it occurred for transparency. We have edited out the names of individuals and the company.
CASHMAN: I don’t want to do to anyone else what I think everyone’s doing to Eliza, which is unjustly targeting anyone. And if I’m wrong, I’d like to figure out how and why.
CHAVEZ: I’ve been getting censored off of Twitter, YouTube, and many other platforms unjustly because of my history. The [PR] company, this company that I whistleblew on… I’m the guy that put out all of the information that you read about it.
But I don’t get any credit for it. Everybody just says that I was behind it. You know, [they say that] this is something that I did, but it can’t be farther from the truth. It centered around a previous company that [they] wanted to start. Basically, what they were doing was using this operation to, like, sow disinformation chaos into the system… to spread disinformation. They go and purposely feed disinformation to people.
The issue here is that a lot of these people that have been connected to this have died, like committed suicide. And if you read about me being connected to suicides, it’s because everybody’s talking about these people that have died, and most of them died like after I left basically, like all these people, were like me and solving these puzzles… Basically, they would just horrendously stalk you through the internet.
I hate to say that gang stalking is even real or whatever, you know, if I’ve ever experienced any type of stalking, it’s probably that kind of. I had a group of people, part of some secret online organization, basically spending their entire day trying to f-cking destroy me online, whether it was on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, so you know what Eliza feels like she’s having happening to her right now — literally has happened to me for the last five years.
