Zhou told me he knows exactly why his account was shut down: "Zoom was acting on behalf of CCP’s China by canceling my account. It was imposing Beijing’s censorship”
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
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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.
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.
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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.
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
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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
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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
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
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@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.
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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