No, NYT. This is an incorrect and harmful overly simplified characterization and also stop quoting this pathological woman-hater. He literally wrote a piece of garbage six days ago calling women slaves of satan. splcenter.org/fighting-hate/…
This person with 200k followers appreciated my tweet so much they decided to write one just like it 7 hours later. It's so fun when you find someone else with the exact same take on the 12th paragraph of a two-day old NYT story!
Here's a pretty interesting story you might have missed. Back in the 1990s, Neo-Nazi David Wolfgang Hawke made a bunch of money as one of the early "spam kings", converted it into gold bars & buried it somewhere. 1/
After losing a spam lawsuit to AOL, Hawke's parents' land was dug up to settle the suit but the gold was never found. Hawke went on the run and was living under an assumed identity in Squamish as a progressive Canadian vegan rock climbing pick-up artist called "Jesse James". 2/
The body of "Jesse James" was found burned in a car 3 years ago and has just last week been established to be Hawke. bc.ctvnews.ca/mobile/man-fou… 3/
I'll use this thread to tweet some today about the Alamance County Trump Convoy (co-sponsored by the dregs of neo-Confederate hate group ACTBAC & Alamance Cty Young Republicans).
So far the only interesting thing is that the Trump Hate Convoy is attracting some Facebook spammers running video scams. Here are some fellows all abbreviating their names "Md" who claim to be livestreaming on some sketchy site and are filling the comments section.
The FB event page has now attracted an additional scammer, going by Sumon, who is using yet another pastebin-type markdown site to promote ads. Meanwhile the Hate Convoy organizers are too busy lining up their toy trucks to moderate the page. I'm rooting for the scammers, ngl
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.
The statement from Facebook in your #5 tweet is a hamfisted, pitiful attempt at both-sidesism. I am not aware of the reach of IGD and Crimthinc on the FB platform, but I suspect that Facebook is not their main avenue of outreach so I hope that ... 1/4
..the practical damage from this action will be minimally disruptive. However, it is an incredible slap in the face to these organizations, both of which have painstakingly grown themselves from standalone websites - and in Crimethinc's case from zines - and which have ... 2/4
a long history of supporting anti-authoritarian, anti-oppression grassroots political movements without regard to "violence". Furthermore, Facebook continues to harbor numerous white supremacist groups on their platform, and still... 3/4
Unfortunately the SPLC's new podcast at soundslikehate.org has been blacklisted by @CiscoUmbrella (opendns) so anyone who is using a computer that has this corporate spyware installed is unable to listen.
I don't know if the blocking by Cisco was accidental or malicious but @splcenter needs to follow the instructions on this site support.opendns.com/hc/en-us/artic… and send some email like this one to support@opendns.com to get this block lifted.
Interestingly, the domain isn't found in the OpenDNS list itself, nor does Google Transparency find anything wrong with it. I sincerely hope this was not an intentional listing by a bad actor.
A Facebook mystery. Back in Oct & Nov 2019 I was getting so many threats each day on FB that I was able to construct a chart showing which threats sent to me were deemed a violation and which ones weren't. You can see this graphic here:
Today, I noticed that ALL those reports are gone from my support inbox, and only a few unrelated messages remain. These remaining messages all have update dates between May 7-23, 2020. Some examples below - note that even the violations are now marked "update soon".
I've said it for the umpteenth time, but Facebook reporting is thoroughly, truly, broken - and it's getting worse. They are not capable of managing this task, they delete the record of their failure, and they can not be trusted to keep people safe on the platform.