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An excellent article on the sudden appearance of Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party's Twitter Army. A shame it doesn't examine Breitbart radicalising & recruiting lonely people looking for a tribe to belong to as alt-Right Trolls. buzzfeed.com/alexspence/nig… via @alexGspence
Breitbart adapted GamerGate strategies to their playbook. GamerGate recruited online frustrated Game fans with little empathy & followed *Alpha males*. This last quality is promoted by most online computer games since 1990s. This had immediate appeal for the alt-Right Brietbart.
Ian Sherr Erin Carson @CNET on Gamergate's influence on the alt-Right: cnet.com/news/gamergate…
Joeseph Bernstien @BuzzFeedNews on making alt_Right narratives the new normal in the media: buzzfeednews.com/article/joseph…
Joeseph Bernstien @BuzzFeedNews on making alt_Right narratives the new normal in the media: buzzfeednews.com/article/joseph…
UKIP’s new MEP candidates, virulent F̶a̶s̶c̶i̶s̶t̶s̶ Classical Liberals, Carl Benjamin (rape advocate) & Milo Yiannopoulos (pedophile advocate) are not coincidental. Farage’s was UKIP but he's standing as a Brexit MEP. 14 of UKIP's 17 MEPs have also defected to the Brexit Party.
Carl Benjamin & Milo Yiannopoulos are both GamerGate/Brietbart provocateurs, and are a distraction for Brexit MEP candidacies. Who are the UKIP MEP candidates campaigning for Farage’s South East MEP seat? Who knows? We’re not supposed to notice^^
Recent polls suggest Brexit Party is way ahead of all other MEP candidates. Lo! The work of Brexit Party social media army & other far 1000,000s of Right Troll/SockPuppet/Bots are lobbying like crazy to make the polls show the Brexit Party is popular. It isn’t.
The extreme Right Trolls you may debate with do not live around the corner. The live all over the globe and are so few they have to gang together in their little Fascist forums and make SockPuppet/Bots so they don't feel so lonely. Just like GamerGate.
Farage claimed a 100,000 were going on the Brexit Betrayal March (March to Leave) to London from Sunderland. What happened? (1.
(2. theneweuropean.co.uk/top-stories/ni…
(2. theneweuropean.co.uk/top-stories/ni…
Also Farage ditched the March to Leave when the media made it obvious how little support it had. Just like he ditched UKIP. Despite the illusions the far Right constantly constructs there isn’t that much support for far Right.
Compare the numbers the March to Leave numbers with the March to Remain.
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We should remember the extreme Right seems powerful because they use a strategy of attacking any moderate voice with, up to, a 1,000 SockPuppet/Bots for any one real alt-Righter. Moderates are fairly defenseless against this tactic because it is not a moderate debating strategy.
Led @bydonkeys were one of the few effectively outing the Farage & the Brexit lobby during the March to Leave. Also any effort to keep track of the Brexit farrago and far Right in the UK and abroad isn’t complete without following Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla
Hi @threadreaderapp, Could you please unroll this thread.
