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Megan Squire

@MeganSquire0

Sep 9, 2020 • 9 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X

I've been wondering which media sources have been pumping Facebook full of anger about "antifa" for the past 30 days. Here's a breakdown of the data. Let's start with the Crowdtangle leaderboard. What do we learn?

(1) The "antifa" Facebook leaderboard is absolutely dominated by right-wing and far-right-wing media, in particular Ben Shapiro and David J Harris Jr, each of whom got more than a million interactions with their "antifa" posts.

(2) In fact, as shown by the performance column, stories about "antifa" do up to 7 times better than most posts on right-wing Pages (30-day basis). (3) Trump has a big audience, but his posts about antifa don't do nearly as well as those from Shapiro and David J Harris Jr.

(4) Harris is having trouble converting his anger-stoking into subscriptions though. He got more interactions on his "antifa" posts (1.19 million) than he has total subscribers (1.14 million page likes).

(5) Kinda weird: The #3 site, US Chronicle, despite having nearly 3million page likes, has no blue check, and no apparent Page owner, nor any information listed for who is running the page. 🤔

(6) The first mainstream/non-right wing news source with any significant traffic on the "antifa" keyword is The Washington Post way down at position #46. Speaking of comparisons to mainstream sites...

(7) Let's compare to other political keywords to see how much better "antifa" performs, past 30 days. Top "Black Lives Matter" interactions go to Shapiro w/ 800k. Meanwhile, top "boogaloo" interaction is HuffPo w/ 17k. Antifa dwarfs both of these in anger-generating potential.

(8) Speaking of anger potential, I ran the numbers on the reacts for posts mentioning "antifa" over a 30-day window. Which posts made the most people angry? If you guessed Trump's... nope. Trump's anti-antifa posts have over 90% "like" emojis. Who then?

No, the prize for the #1 "antifa" Facebook post in the last 30 days that was able to generate the most "angry" emojis - over 80,000 of them in fact - goes to.... evangelist Franklin Graham.

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Megan Squire

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Sep 19, 2021

The Epik breach has some security mistakes in it that are so damaging they take my breath away. But I guess this shouldn’t be surprising given Rob Monster’s approach to business. A thread.

Here’s the Epik CEO trying to hire Jack Corbin, aka Daniel McMahon, serial harasser, cyber stalker now sitting in jail.

Here’s him dragging Cloudflare and calling them a honeypot and saying they have bad security. Can’t make this stuff up folks.

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Megan Squire

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Jul 30, 2021

It’s time to talk about what happens after de-platforming: Nick Fuentes lasted 5 days after being kicked off Twitter before creating a new account. It has a name mocking sexual assault, groyper avatar, advertises his show, and follows all his other briefly deplatformed orbiters.

De-platformed high status individuals lose their brand and follower count (1k vs 130k in his case) when they come back, but they almost always return shortly after the ban. (They are easily detectable, so why do the platforms let them back?)

Low status individuals can return AND retain their brand - this is when you see username1, username2, ad nauseum. They have to rebuild their followers, but that is straightforward since they had fewer than 1k accounts to begin with.

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Megan Squire

@MeganSquire0

May 14, 2021

Finally - here's my accepted paper on the DLive video streaming service and how it's being used by far-right propagandists to earn money (Apr 2020-Jan 2021). Lots of data! Here are some of the largest cash-outs including some post-insurrection refunds arxiv.org/abs/2105.05929

Here is the network of streamers (pink) and donors (gray) - only showing donors who gave at least 10,000 lemons ($120) for visibility, otherwise too much data! You can read more about the different labels in the paper, but A is Groypers, B is MurderTheMedia, etc.

What we learn from the network diagram is that there are lots of separate communities with very little overlap - at least at the high dollar amounts - between them. The biggest donation recipients operate more as "stars" within their own separate fandoms or cliques.

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Megan Squire

@MeganSquire0

Mar 27, 2021

LBRY is one of a new crop of "uncensorable" blockchain-based content hosting sites, unsurprisingly run by a libertarian tech bro. They recently launched a "Youtube killer" called Odysee & set about trying to attract fascists. Yet, they are having some struggles. Let's explore.

First, and most embarrassingly, Odysee is trying to act like they rolled their own livestreaming tech solution. Fact is, they seem to have just hired the programmer for Bitwave (goes by Dispatch/Xander) & are running all their livestreams through the Bitwave[.]tv infrastructure.

You may recall Bitwave as one of the sites that enabled GypsyCrusader (Paul Miller) to harass Omegle users w/ shocking, racist comments while dressed like The Joker - before his gun charges and arrest. Amazing partnership LBRY, wow.

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Megan Squire

@MeganSquire0

Feb 19, 2021

One thing I do to wind down after a long day is open your public source code and check out what your programmer is up to. I de-obfuscate the code, run a few tests, then contact every company involved in the tech stack keeping you online. It’s up to them whether to let you persist

I document everything, send updates to people who are keeping up with all this, and thank everyone profusely who helps keep the internet safe from violence-inspiring, racist antisemites like you. Then I go to bed and do it again the next day.

Sometimes while I’m figuring out the tech you’re experimenting with that day, I see the digital traces of someone else doing the same thing as me and I imagine we kind of wave at each other. Shoutouts to all the people quietly doing the work.

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Megan Squire

@MeganSquire0

Feb 2, 2021

I was just answering a survey with a question about how "Extremist actors use the internet and social media differently than the average user." Here are 6 ways I have observed far-right extremist actors behaving differently online:

1. Harassment of users. Harassment is a key entertainment activity for these people, and can be carried out both on a single platform AND between platforms (i.e. advertising on Telegram for a DLive channel that is livestreaming a Discord raid).

2. Development of specialized vocabulary and memes to spread hate and build camaraderie. Specialized vocab also can be used to skirt content moderation ("joggers", "big luau", etc.) See also Daily Stormer style guide for more examples of how to propagandize via word choice/ tone.

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