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Oct 18, 2019 • 3 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
For the last week, a war has been brewing between those looking to being #8Chan back online, and its founder @hw_beat_that who wants it — and #QAnon — to die vice.com/en_us/article/…
The latests efforts to get 8chan’s successor, #8kun, up and running is to rout traffic through China — you know, where free speech online is so welcome…. vice.com/en_us/article/…
Without 8chan, or its successor 8kun coming back online, then #QAnon is dead and Frederick Brennan wants to keep it that way Image

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Sep 18
For the last seven years, Laura Loomer has spewed a toxic mix of Islamophobic, racist and conspiratorial bile.

That period has also coincided with her relationship with Donald Trump growing ever closer.

Here's how it happened:

1/8
wired.com/story/donald-t…
Loomer likely first came onto Trump's radar for disrupting a version of Julius Caesar in Central Park in 2017 that had a Trump-like figure in the lead role.

She was arrested, but critically, she was also interviewed by Trump's favourite TV star at the time, Sean Hannity

2/8
Loomer worked for a number of far-right disinfo outlets (including InfoWars) but in 2020 decided to run for Congress. After she won the GOP primary, Trump praised her publicly, but it wasn't enough to win the general election.

She ran again in 2022, but lost the primary

3/6 Image
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Sep 6
Inside Russia's plan to sway the the US election for Trump:

— A 277-page indictment. unsealed this week, gives unprecedented insight into the goals, target audiences, tactics and resources the Kremlin is using.

This is "Project Good Old USA"

1/11

wired.com/story/project-…
The plan was written in late August 2023 by Moscow-based company Social Design Agency. The company founder Ilya Gambashidze shared his plans with high-ranking officials in the Kremlin, and notes obtained by the FBI show Putin was among those being briefed.

2/11
Central to the plan was not trying to convince Americans that Russia was great, but to expose America's darkest fears

"They are afraid of losing the American way of life and the ‘American dream.' It is these sentiments that should be exploited," Gambashidze wrote.

3/11
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Aug 29
There was lots of focus on JD Vance's "childless cat ladies" comment when he was named Trump's VP pick

But our investigation found this was a tiny part of the campaign's deep-seated misogynistic worldview, echoing the darkest corners of the internet

1/6
 wired.com/story/trump-va…
Here are some of the things both Trump and Andrew Tate have called women in the past:

• Dumb
• Dogs
• Crazy
• Low IQ
• Bitches

Of course both have also been accused by multiple women of rape and sexual assault.

2/6
Despite the toxic nature of Tate, Trump is actively courting this community.

Or as @TimAlberta put it, the campaign is looking to woo “secluded, MAGA-sympathetic voters who have proved difficult to engage.”

3/6
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Aug 12
It has been 10 years since the misogynistic online hate campaign that became known as #Gamergate

Then the hate came from fringe online platforms like 4chan. Today, that hatred comes direct from the GOP.

Here's how it happened

1/6
wired.com/story/gamergat…
Back in 2014, the harassment campaigns were aimed at games developers and commentators who sought to broaden women’s place in gaming.

Those tactics eventually “became embedded into the MAGA movement” and “seeped into the fabric of US democracy,” says @AttorneyNora

2/6
At the, time, the person who saw the terrible potential of Gamergate was Steve Bannon

“What he tried to do with Gamergate was really standardize those tactics so that many more people understood how to do gender trolling or race trolling as a political tactic.” @BostonJoan said

3/6
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Jul 30
In Telegram channels, neo-Nazis and white supremacists have been discussing ways to spread their message to new audiences, and even recruit new members.

And one platform is targeted above any other: #TikTok

Here's what's happening:

1/6
wired.com/story/tiktok-n…
Neo-Nazi are sharing tips on how to spread their content on TikTok, using coded language, symbols and altered images and videos to circumvent TikTok's content moderation policies.

The content is overtly racist, including pro-Hitler videos and Holocaust denial posts

2/6
@ISDglobal researcher @NateTheDoctor found a single neo-Nazi account on TikTok and from here built out a network of several hundred accounts, just by manually reviewing accounts and videos.

The network is global and interconnected, sharing and boosting each others videos.

3/6
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Jul 9
In the space 24 hours, a false story about Volodymr Zelensky's wife buying a $5M Bugatti Tourbillon spread at warp speed across the internet from from an unknown AI-powered French website to the top search result of Google

Here's how it happened

1/7
wired.com/story/ai-gener…
On July 1, the website Vérité Cachée published an article headed: “Olena Zelenska became the first owner of the all-new Bugatti Tourbillon.”

The claim was backed up by video testimony from a "whistleblower" and documents.

It was all fake.

2/7
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The site is part of an AI-powered disinfo network run by John Mark Dougan, a former Florida cop who now lives in Moscow.

@PaulMyersBBC @Shayan86, @mwendling and @O_Rob1nson at the BBC tracked this network for a long time

3/7
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