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After there months offline, #8chan resurfaced Saturday as #8kun and within hours #QAnon was back vice.com/en_us/article/…
The return of #8kun follows a weeks-long battle between #8chan founder @hw_beat_that and the site's owners Jim Watkins (@isitwetyet) and his son Ron (@CodeMonkeyZ) who is the site’s administrator vice.com/en_us/article/…
Hosting for the site is being provided by Media Land, a company based in Russia that @briankrebs revealed in July was a bulletproof hosting service used for ransomware, phishing and cybercrime forums vice.com/en_us/article/…
The site has already come under a large number of attacks, but US company VanwaTech is providing DDoS protection and CEO @LimTheNick says the attacks were to be expected vice.com/en_us/article/…

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Feb 9
Russia's media is this morning celebrating a huge victory thanks to #TuckerCarlson's softball interview with Putin last night.

Here's how the Kremlin-backed outlets, as well as Telegram channels, and bot networks are spinning the encounter.

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The homepages of all Russian media are dominated by stories about the interview. State-run news agency RIA Novosti's newsfeed had at least a dozen stories published since last night — focusing on how Putin had succeeded in "educating" the west about Russia/Ukraine history

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Memes about Carlson flooded pro-Kremlin Telegram channels, including ones calling for a national day of celebration for Tucker and images of him wearing a ushanka hat.

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Jan 29
Going to be monitoring the #takeourborderback convoy here today, watching numerous livestreamers who are in Viriginia broascasting from the convoy as it gets ready to depart for Texas

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Last night some of those involved got kicked out of the parking lot where they were set to meet this morning, prompting a last-minute change of venue



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And this morning, one of the livestreamers posted a picture claiming that four cars which had their types slashed in the parking lot of the hotel where convoyers were staying

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Jan 26
Tensions on the Texas border are already sky high, with GOP lawmakers calling for civil war & Trump calling to deploy the national guard

Now a convoy, organized by a far-right extremist who wants to hunt down migrants, is about to make things worse

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wired.com/story/extremis…
The #TakeBackOurBorder convoy is spearheaded by Pete Chambers who claims to be a former green beret and plans to deploy tactics used fighting ISIS in Syria against migrants crossing the border.

Here he is on Alex Jones talking about deploying a "domestic internal defense"

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The convoy will begin Monday from Virginia, moving through Florida and Louisiana before ending up in Eagle Pass, Texas, where the standoff is taking place.

En route, the convoy will stop off at a brewery owned by Phil Waldron, who was central to fomenting #Jan6th

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Nov 28, 2023
How did Bannon and Carlson, two of the biggest MAGA influencers, end up boosting a conspiracy that Ireland's government is replacing its population with "people from the third world"?

The answer is Keith Woods (a Roscommon native whose real name is Keith O'Brien)

A 🧵...
Woods, who has blocked me, was a student at NUIG where he studied philosophy.

He can be seen in this picture (back row, 3rd from left) which was taken at an intervarsity debating competition where Woods (or O'Brien as he's referred to in the caption) came 2nd. Image
In recent years however Woods has become most famous as the pseudo-intellectual voice of the Irish far-right.

With accounts on Twitter and Telegram he built up a sizeable following though until recently, Woods did not like to get his hands dirty with real world protests.
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Nov 24, 2023
Irish Garda Commissioner Drew Harris this morning said that there's no way when the stabbing happened they "could have anticipated" the #DublinRiots

It was the first thing I expected when I heard about the stabbing.

Anyone paying attention knew this was coming.

A short 🧵
Last year, @globalextremism warned that white nationalist, anti-LGBTQ+, anti-immigrant and anti-lockdown groups in Ireland “seem to be coming together and echoing each other’s hateful rhetoric."

The report was largely ignored with one Irish journalist calling it "disinformation" Image
Over the course of the last year the real-world activities of far-right figures have ratcheted up, most recently seen in the attacks on libraries where dangerous idiots threaten library staff and defame them as pedophiles and groomers.

thejournal.ie/library-protes…
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Nov 23, 2023
It has been quite a week in QAnon world....so if you're sitting down to Thanksgiving dinner today, it might be good to know just what your crazy uncle from Florida is talking about.

Here's a short 🧵...
Elon Musk began the week by reviving the Pizzagate conspiracy, a precursor to QAnon that many within the movement still believe to be true, even though it was thoroughly debunked

edition.cnn.com/2023/11/20/tec…
Then a new Q website popped up with a countdown clock that runs out next week, featuring the well-known QAnon phrase "Nothing can stop what is coming"

Even though they have no idea what it means, Q people are getting VERY excited about what will happen... Image
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