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Ali Breland

2 years

my feature on gen-z, far right politics, nick fuentes, and the future of conservatism is the cover story in the latest print copy of mother jones

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Ali Breland

@alibreland

2 years

football is an international sport and should be added to the olympics accordingly. i want to see deebo samuel come off a stacked bench and stiff arm five icelandic defenders in a row on the way to a 157-3 rout

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In Japan's college football, the Kansai Kaisers struck first with this deep pass from 須田啓太 to 溝口駿斗 on the way to defeating the Kyoto Gangsters, 42-14 in KCAFL Div. 1 action; full highlights: 🇯🇵🏈

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what the establishment fears most

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i just emailed apple and asked why they have 9 million n95 masks in storage and they unsurprisingly declined to comment. i guess if you happen to know why or someone who might, my dms are open and my email is abreland @motherjones .com

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amazing shot of gorka yelling at @BrianKarem in the white house garden over an event on memes bc that's the type of thing our government does now

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not the biggest story at all right now, but 220,000 people are watching hasan piker's twitch stream about what's happening right now, which is an incredible media story in of itself

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@alibreland

4 years

cute that you listen to music. i only grind and gain knowledge

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State Fair pro tip: You don’t want to miss the Minnesota firefighters at the @MNAFLCIO .

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3 years

new: a leaked oath keeper membership list shows how members say they found out about the militia before joining it. i analyzed the 18,000 entries in it. the most cited entrypoint? facebook

How do people join militias? A leaked Oath Keepers roster has answers.

Police, preppers, and the platforms all provide points of entry.

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Ali Breland

@alibreland

5 years

faceapp used my data to make a replica of my face and now a russian GRU agent is wearing it and trying to get into edm clubs to smear my reputation as a chill guy with good taste who doesn't listen to edm

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I spent the last year reporting and writing about Nick Fuentes’ alienated army of zoomers, influencer fascism, and why it’s a mistake to assume younger generations are pre-destined to be progressive

How Nick Fuentes is grooming a new generation of racist hate

America’s No. 1 white nationalist is working his way back—thanks to Kanye, Elon, and Trump.

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there is a loft in soho where people are interested in fascist authors, occultism, and books about race and iq. with the help of silicon valley, they are also trying to build a cryptocity on the mediterranean. i wrote about the startup behind it, praxis:

A Peter Thiel-linked startup is courting New York scenesters and plotting a libertarian paradise

The Praxis Society envisions a Mediterranean enclave—with just the Right kind of people.

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3 years

feel like a van is the last type of vehicle you’d want to put this on. kind of undermines the whole thing

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@alibreland

4 years

damn. if only we could have seen this coming.

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A former Houston police captain allegedly held an innocent man at gunpoint as part of an amateur voter fraud investigation, convinced his was part of a ballot crime ring that involved Hispanic children and $10 million from Mark Zuckerberg.

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2 years

elon is now talking about potentially giving people high yield interest accounts to get them to store their money on twitter

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You've maybe heard of Kiwi Farms, one of the most destructive sites online, but what exactly was it? I spent years talking to victims and their friends and family, investigating how it destroyed people's lives and why it's still not dead yet

The website that wants you to kill yourself—and won't die

How the trolls on Kiwi Farms hounded people to commit suicide and created the online culture we have today.

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Ali Breland

@alibreland

5 years

ICE messed up their redaction job so that you can copy and paste it into another document and get all details about the value of their renewed deal with Palantir, lol

ICE accidentally just revealed how much its new contract with Peter Thiel's Palantir is worth

Oops.

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Ali Breland

@alibreland

4 years

new: it turns out that trump's baseless tweet citing an OAN report that made debunked claims about "votes switching" seems to just be completely cribbed from a random, anonymous forum poster on thedonald

Trump's latest false fraud claim came from an anonymous internet poster

This is how disinformation works

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4 years

new: telegram has started taking down the public channels and chats dozens of neo-nazi and white supremacists. telegram almost never does this, and has been resistant to taking channels since it banned isis ones years ago

Telegram finally takes down neo-Nazi channels

The encrypted messaging app admits the groups had engaged in "calls to violence."

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Ali Breland

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4 years

that viral reddit post about "reopen[statename].com" being a part of a right-wing astroturf campaign to stop the lockdowns is wrong. i just talked to the guy who bought most of the domains. he's an "old hippie" who bought the urls to stop conservatives from getting them

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5 years

the short answer is compliance with california regulations passed a couple years ago that require companies to have masks for their employees who might be exposed to wildfire smoke. this is what FB told me, for why they have masks and seems to be the case w/ other companies too

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5 years

i love it when news outlets uncritically cover and amplify islamaphobia

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5 years

Over the last several months, I've been going to MAGA and QAnon rallies to get a sense of what IRL Q people actually believe, how their beliefs have morphed over time, and how what they think even differs within their own community.

The QAnon conspiracy has been laughed at and kicked offline. But there's one place it won't die.

How a bizarre right-wing delusion became the ultimate Trumper pledge of allegiance.

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4 years

they are definitely right-wingers, lol. they posted about qanon, white genocide conspiracy theories, followed ben shapiro, praised jordan peterson, etc.:

Men who allegedly plotted to kidnap Michigan's governor celebrated violent far-right extremism

They supported Boogaloos and Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse, among others.

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Laura Ingraham claims the people involved in the plot to kidnap Whitmer look like anarchists and not right-wingers

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3 years

sure, but also...

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Vice President Kamala Harris tells the Guatemalan President to his face that political corruption, violence against lgbt people and Afro-descendants are some of the root causes of migration to America.

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the cia redesigned its website to look like *the intercept*

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i'm still trying to figure out why apple had as many as 9 million masks according to Pence, and facebook only around 700k. story coming soon

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2 years

new: archived moderation logs show how jim watkins, the proprietor of qanon's home 8chan, ran a separate imageboard where users recurringly posted links to pedophelic content

QAnon's chief enabler ran a website where he brushed off concerns about pedophilic content

A little-known archive unveils a dark irony behind the right's child protection conspiracy.

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Ali Breland

@alibreland

2 months

there's race science vibe shift going on right now. i wrote about how scientific racism is becoming mainstream among some parts of the right and how it's starting to edge into places like silicon valley too

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@alibreland

5 years

somewhere on smu's campus, a chi-o or whatever is silently fuming as she reads this and thinks about how her ring by spring plans have been ruined

Pinterest And The Knot Will Stop Promoting Wedding Content That Romanticizes Former Slave Plantat...

"Weddings should be a symbol of love and unity. Plantations represent none of those things," a Pinterest spokesperson told BuzzFeed News.

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@alibreland

4 years

in small towns across the country this summer, some police have been getting into qanon. i wrote about it, its obvious harms and how police have a history of getting into conspiracy theories

How QAnon is attracting cops

Armed, empowered—and enthralled with a deadly conspiracy.

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Ali Breland

@alibreland

4 years

this will get buried right now, but discord just told me that they banned the official discord linked to

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5 years

i was at a show last year where the rapper ( @father ), who was sick, spit off the stage into a woman's mouth after she demanded it. in retrospect, i think modern medicine made us too cocky

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2 years

wild that nbc consider this "mocking musk," and went after ben for it. he is contextualizing the news. it only looks like he's mocking elon, because elon does such absurd things that sometimes just restating them sounds like you're mocking him

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The scandal here is that Elon Musk discovered who his company's deputy general counsel was six weeks after he purchased it.

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5 years

the maniacs still awake on this website made a hoax about oprah being arrested for sex trafficking go viral, then the benevolent maniacs debunked it, and then oprah herself responded, all in the 8ish hour window that reasonable people are asleep during

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Ali Breland

@alibreland

4 years

wrote about how last night showed how streamers like @hasanthehun have built out the infrastructure on twitch to make it one of the few online tools for progressive like aoc and omar that hasn't been overrun by the right yet

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4 years

new: a massive, and rapidly growing "stop the count" facebook group, appears to be a part of a coordinated campaign. it was created by a california republican and has ties to gop operatives, including former tea party organizers

A massive "Stop the Count" Facebook group has ties to Republican operatives

Online links show the viral effort is backed by GOP consultants and a tea party organization.

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Ali Breland

@alibreland

2 years

reading naomi klein's "no logo" from 1999 and learning that we have been having the exact same campus debate for at least two decades

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5 years

one of the women in this video was convicted of hate speech in austria in 2011, which cbs 7 doesn't ever think to mention

Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff, Convicted of Hate Speech Against Muslims,

Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff — an Austrian anti-Muslim activist convicted of hate speech in her native country in 2011 — was invited to meet with Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, in Topeka on

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4 years

new: 4chan users are compiling lists of black lives matter telegram channels that protestors are using to organize, and trying scrape them for identifying details of protestors, and are talking about trying to seed disinformation on them

Alt-right trolls are trying to sabotage Black Lives Matter chatrooms.

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3 years

new: i spoke to a dozen journalists about the aggressive, manipulative and sometimes outright deceptive tactics that amazon's PR team uses to intimidate and mislead reporters, and by extension, the public.

How Amazon bullies, manipulates, and lies to reporters

The company's cutthroat corporate culture cripples critical coverage—and your right to know.

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2 years

the plan was simple. we were in debt and didn't have money. but our users did.

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3 years

all this talk about kyrsten sinema, but not a word about christian cinema. what happened to jesus in the movie theater? how did we become so godless

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2 years

i've seen some people criticizing this, but tbh it might a good thing for defanging some far-right meme aesthetics. when the staff of a decidedly not subversive 79 year old president is using lasers eyes, it makes all of fashwave less edgy

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Dark Brandon is crushing it

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Ali Breland

@alibreland

4 years

ahead of inauguration day, extremists are sharing bomb making instructions and tactical guides on 8kun (the qanon website) and telegram

Ahead of Biden's inauguration, extremists trade bomb making instructions and tactics guides

Far right online forums are awash in calls for violence—and instructions on how to carry it out.

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5 years

I wrote an essay on why pedophilia is in QAnon, Pizzagate and so many other conspiracies are vigorously fixated on pedophilia. It's not just about kids, it's about reactionaries losing their minds over social progress

Why are right-wing conspiracies so obsessed with pedophilia?

The story is the same, from the day-care panics to QAnon: It's not about the kids. It's about fears of social change.

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5 years

hm, seems that people want to know the draft age right now

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4 years

new: some facebook employees are starting to not interview new prospective candidates for jobs because they don't feel comfortable recommending it as a place to work in response to zuckerberg declining to action on trump's tweets

Facebook employees consider work stoppage to push Zuckerberg to take action on Trump

"Maybe leadership will pay more attention when there's no one left to conduct interviews."

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new: moderators of the_donald, which reddit banned this summer, have duped reddit and gotten back on its platform. i found this out by blackkklansmaning my way into their private discord, which is a separate cesspool of tos violating hate and bigotry

How the most toxic, notorious online pro-Trump community tricked Reddit and got back online

Private chats show how The_Donald's banned users continue to manipulate the site.

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@alibreland

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new: russia state media, RT, was one of the first "outlets" to try to link antifa to wildfires in oregon, helping fuel the baseless theory that antifa starting forest fires

Right-wing conspiracists linked antifa to the wildfires. Then they got a boost from Russian media.

How overlapping false claims about the wildfires ricocheted around conservative social media thanks to a bogus story from Russia.

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Ali Breland

@alibreland

3 years

you can look up any ncaa bracket group on espn. morgan stanley's m&a team and bain chicago are doing terrible. the baton rouge exxon office is beating both. louisville frito lay is getting smoked by raytheon engineering. a suburban texas hs basketball team is crushing all of them

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3 years

amanda moore (aka @noturtlesoup17 ) spent the better part of 2021 traveling across the country, going undercover in maga land. documenting everything she could, moore found a bizarre and concerning world. i profiled her about all of it:

The plan was simple: Infiltrate MAGA world and tell everyone what she saw. Then she was found out.

Amanda Moore went undercover and witnessed how fascism has burrowed into the right.

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Ali Breland

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5 years

i've seen that some of you have called trump, his base and the GOP a "death cult" in light of their recent push to sacrifice people for the economy. i talked to some cult experts and it turns out that they think you are correct

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5 years

My story on the Proud Boys, alt-right rally in D.C. today which was poorly attended, awkward and just generally uncomfortable

The neo-fascist proud boys organized a "free speech" rally in DC. It flopped.

A botched handcuff metaphor, B-list speakers, sweltering heat, and a big police presence.

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4 years

a lot of qanon people are disillusioned right now, but i've covered qanon for almost three years now it always figures out to explain its way through supposed make or break moments. some people may defect but qanon isn't going anywhere for awhile

QAnon never made sense—and it will easily make sense of President Biden

The conspiracy theory has endured hundreds of failed predictions. Today's could leave it stronger.

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@alibreland

5 years

a large group of powerful white people creating a rule that bars people from calling someone "racist" should be too on the nose to be real.

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every couple of years, like clockwork, a couple of people forget that nazis and fascists want to kill people and start writing the weirdest glib stories about them

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new: thedonald, a massive pro-trump forum where ahead of the jan. 6 riots users shared maps of the capitol and posted as though they were about to go war, tried to quietly delete its entire pre-riot post archive

A major Trump forum scrubs its archives of thousands of pre-riot posts

The removal of messages discussing violent plans could bring evidence tampering charges.

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Ali Breland

@alibreland

6 years

@cjtruth @StormIsUponUs excuse me, mr. truth, can you please update this to reflect my current employment at Mother Jones. I no longer work at The Hill. -regards, "other player" ali breland

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5 years

Good stuff from Fox News who quietly changed its headline that amplified the hoax that antifa was throwing cement milkshakes at the Proud Boys in Portland without issuing a correction, or even acknowledging it

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1 year

after 50 people were killed in a mosque, laura loomer said “Nobody cares about [the] Christchurch [shooting]. I especially don’t. I care about my social media accounts and the fact that Americans are being silenced.”

Trump Wanted to Hire Laura Loomer, Anti-Muslim Activist (Published 2023)

The former president’s aides feared that hiring Ms. Loomer, who has a long history of bigoted remarks, would set off a backlash. That proved to be correct.

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2 years

@OnMyLovell trying to be polite. they’re good at soccer. maybe a guy could hit something from 60 yards

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new: did a quick roundup of how much white nationalists love the richest man in the world carrying water for one of their pet conspiracy theories (they love it so much)

White nationalists are big fans of Elon's "white genocide" tweets

"Things are moving in the right direction," said one prominent neo-Nazi.

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@alibreland

5 years

I wrote about why Mark Zuckerberg’s speech yesterday wasn’t very good. I don’t understand why he expects anyone to believe that Facebook helps achieve his vague vision for free speech when he can’t even articulate it

Facebook says it's here to help, but it can't explain how.

CEO Mark Zuckerberg had trouble finding evidence backing his case for the platform's hands-off approach.

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@alibreland

5 years

I dug into how Steve King mixed up a Soros conspiracy with one about the whistleblower. It unsurprisingly started with a three-year-old Breitbart article and a couple really bad, hyperpartisan new click farm sites, and possibly Jerome Corsi

Steve King mixed up his Soros and his whistleblower conspiracy theories

The Iowa Republican circulated disinformation in a now deleted tweet.

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2 years

this is incredibly bleak. IGD did very important work in tracking the ascent of fascists and the broader far-right. this plus journalist aaron rupar getting banned, while actual neo-nazis get reinstated shows you exactly what elon's priorities are

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Anarchist media collective @igd_news has been suspended

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steve bannon is involved in a new cryptocurrency, let's go brandon coin aka $fjb. @DavidCornDC and i asked some experts about it and they had concerns. chiefly about a line its code that lets its operators manually lock anyone’s holdings of the coin:

Experts raise questions about Steve Bannon's new cryptocurrency

Former Trump aides are pitching a digital coin to Biden haters.

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@burgessev @SLLIME64 mainstream rappers will never run through a door, duck around the bushes, change shoes and come out of the basement. that's why the underground is so important

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wrote about how nick fuentes's white nationalist conference felt like a new line was crossed. i'm still not sure how sum up watching people openly talk about great replacement and chanting to lock up black people in between remarks from US congressmen:

How Marjorie Taylor Greene and Nick Fuentes are easing white power into the GOP mainstream

The America First Political Action Conference featured brazen and open rhetoric.

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wrote about how hawley pressing the big red "pedophile/think of the children" button in the SCOTUS hearing comes from the same thing as the CRT panic, QAnon, and the satanic panic: reactionaries trying to hit reset on bits of the culture war they're losing

Why Josh Hawley is smearing Ketanji Brown Jackson as soft on pedophilia

The right has a long history of seeing child endangerment lurking behind progress.

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for background on aoc's questioning of zuckerberg on daily caller, facebook didn't have to partner with them, it was at former bush staffer and current facebook vp joel kaplan's behest

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he told me he spent $4000 of his own money and went into credit card debt to do it. regardless, because of shoddy amateur reddit/twitter sleuthing, liberals mistaking him for a right-wing astroturfer have been harassing him nonstop for the last 24 hours

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@ScottNover didn’t sound like he was joking, but it did he sound like he was just spitballing. but that’s also how everything he has introduced on twitter sounds

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6 years

Alex Jones is going to have face this again

Georgetown Law

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Today, a federal judge ruled that @brennanmgilmore 's defamation suit against #AlexJones , #Infowars and others who spread false and defamatory conspiracy theories about him can proceed. #GeorgetownLaw 's Civil Rights Clinic is representing Mr. Gilmore:

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@jeffihaza lil b might have to come out of curse casting retirement

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anyway, i have story coming soon about it. in the meantime, some of you inept internet vigilantes need to chill out. osint is great, but don't make assumptions and then ruin people's lives over it

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wrote about how the blurring of personal finance and high finance and how crypto/memestocks/nfts/etc. are a rational response to an irrational economy: one where the new standard of financial responsibility is just being fabulously wealthy

How an era of financial precarity set the stage for crypto

Betting on meme stocks to save for retirement might not be moral, but it’s certainly rational.

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joe biden wrote a letter to facebook yesterday about it's disinformation problem. it essentially blew him off today and within hours of doing that, its site got washed out with wild disinformation about biden

Biden disinfo is ripping across Facebook the same day it brushed him off.

Republicans complain, too, Facebook says nonsensically.

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5 years

i waded deeply into the_donald for you people to explore how they're terrified about being banned from reddit but have no idea what to do about it

Users of a major online Trump hub expect they'll be kicked off Reddit—and they don't know where to...

The_Donald message board will miss the platform even if it has repeatedly violated the company's rules.

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5 years

@nicgreiner @FinallyDeirdre they said they’re donating them

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the answer isn't just "fires happen in california." i spoke with a crisis management and "enterprise resilience" expert who helps companies plan for disasters in advance and he ran down how and why companies have masks and other supplies on hand.

Why do Apple, Facebook, and other companies have so many masks lying around?

"Because they are prepared."

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4 years

looks like gab was hacked again

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5 years

new: i facetimed with the guy who says he's behind the now infamous nigerian mayor pete fan account. he is, in fact, not lis smith

We talked to the man behind that Nigerian Pete Buttigieg fan account. It's not Lis Smith.

Surprise!

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@alibreland

3 years

the gabby petito case is just a preview. tik tok sleuths are gonna be even wilder next time they fixated on a crime. fully innocent people with the vaguest connection to the crime are going to doxxed and harassed. it's gonna be reddit in super saiyan mode

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@alibreland

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just published my last feature for mother jones. it's about how "qanon won." the lurid, moral panic induced hallucinations went from fringe conspiracy to now being a common leitmotif of the mainstream right, and sometimes just the general mainstream

How Q became everything

The conspiracy group’s goal was to convince people the world is run by pedophiles, and, well, mission accomplished.

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Ali Breland

@alibreland

4 years

@kimpossiblefact @saintknives i have dated over 300 confirmed muslim men

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trump pulled his weird bible photo-op at st. john's church and then later that week his security prevented a bishop from being able to hold an actual religious event at the church

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Ali Breland

@alibreland

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a study from a harvard prof went viral in right-wing, antivax spaces. vaccine skeptics held it up as proof that vaccines don't work. so i talked to the professor. he was confused, said that they're completely wrong and that the paper is pro-vaccine

A Harvard study is going viral among anti-vaxxers. The author says they are all wrong.

New research backing vaccines is being twisted to smear them.

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Ali Breland

@alibreland

5 years

New: I stumbled onto a huge, coordinated 4chan harassment campaign against Scandinavian Airlines and people who made a commercial for it. 4channers are mad because they feel like the ad threatens their sense of white, nordic superiority

4Chan trolls target Scandinavian Airlines with racist harassment campaign

They're outraged over the company's new ad.

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Ali Breland

@alibreland

5 years

a white woman accosting the writer of slave play about race is the most perfect and symmetrical argument in support of the thesis of slave play. this should be too on the nose to be real, but it somehow isn't

Jeremy O. Harris

@jeremyoharris

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Imma tell my kids this was The Blind Side

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@alibreland

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for people curious, this is a gray television station, not sinclair.

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Ali Breland

@alibreland

4 years

goes without saying but trump white power video shouldn’t be treated like an accident. he keeps doing this. the only other politicians like this are people like steve king and cindy hyde smith, who do it on purpose

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Ali Breland

@alibreland

3 years

twitter spokesperson on the suspensions: "The accounts referenced were permanently suspended for violating the Twitter rules on platform manipulation and spam."

Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D

@RVAwonk

3 years

Just in: Twitter has suspended the Arizona Audit account and the Audit War Room account.

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@alibreland

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only 35% of the country has a college degree. and the atlantic just published a survey *this morning* that found 40% of the capitol rioters who were arrested on jan. 6 are either business owners or have white-collar jobs

Ally Mutnick

@allymutnick

4 years

NEW: House Dems unveiled the message they plan to hammer throughout the 2022 cycle: The GOP is the party of QAnon "They can do QAnon or they can do college-educated voters. They cannot do both" - DCCC Chair Sean Patrick Maloney w/ @sarahnferris

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to be clear, there does seem to be some kind of potentially astroturfed coordination, but he's not involved. even so, he's been harassed and doxxed. he's gotten so many calls he's had to turn his phone off. people keep trying to hack his accounts.

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Ali Breland

@alibreland

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Looks like Jacob Wohl retroactively changed the location of his Instagram photos to try to appear as though he were in Ukraine this past August, like he's now claiming. The pictures were originally tagged as having been taken in Tel Aviv and Belarus.

Will Sommer

@willsommer

5 years

Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman are having a press conference in Burkman's driveway tomorrow, this time claiming they've been digging up dirt in Ukraine.

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Ali Breland

@alibreland

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from discord: "While there is no evidence of the server being used to organize the Jan 6 riots, Discord decided to ban the entire server today due to its overt connection to an online forum used to incite violence and plan an armed insurrection in the United States"

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Ali Breland

@alibreland

4 years

there's an increasing contingent of people whose main political issue is just coming up with new imaginary groups of people to fantasize about gunning down

Shayan Sardarizadeh

@Shayan86

4 years

This Facebook post has got 256,000 shares in just one week. Young mothers and children are photographed with guns while holding #SaveOurChildren signs. "Just know, that every bit of force we have will be USED when/if necessary to #SAVEOURCHILDREN ," it says.

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@alibreland

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@Oxfarm @ClaraJeffery please dm me and tell me more. v curious.

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@alibreland

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interestingly ron watkins, jim's son, has worked with his dad extensively and is running for congress at a time when the GOP is heavily leaning into aggressively accusing their opponents of being child “groomers” and pedophile sympathizers

QAnon's chief enabler ran a website where he brushed off concerns about pedophilic content

A little-known archive unveils a dark irony behind the right's child protection conspiracy.

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