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6 Jan, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Twitter users openly calling for the 'day of the rope', a white supremacist fantasy ImageImageImageImage
That noose is made from camera wire. The Turner Diaries specifically references hanging journalists.
Just to note that @rustie555 has gotten in touch to clarify that they were commenting on the discourse, not calling for the DOTR

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7 Jan
For me, the striking thing about so many of these images of rioters in the Capitol is that what they're doing - all of them - is creating content for social media.

At least in their minds, the true seat of power is not actually in that building. It's online.
Politics is always performative, but the nature of the performance has changed dramatically in just a few years. What we saw today was the sudden, violent disruption of one performance, the certification of electoral college votes, for another, wilder show.
They could have done anything in that building today. What they did, by and large, was take selfies and create social media content. That was what really mattered to them. Whatever higher motives they might claim, their actions suggest that was the real motive for many of them.
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6 Jan
Do these people look like Trump supporters, yes. That's the QAnon shaman guy
mashable.com/article/qanon-…
QAnon Shaman is going to be quite hurt at the number of his compatriots who are pretending not to recognise him
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27 Oct 20
I have been continuing to piece together the timeline behind this 'Typhoon Investigations' Biden-China report.

TLDR; a persona posing as a North Asia specialist which promoted the report before it was published by @BaldingsWorld appears to be fabricated.

There are now a number of Twitter accounts posing as 'Typhoon Investigations'. I was able to eliminate most of these as imposters or unlikely to be connected to the original source. One, however, stood out. Image
It does seem plausible that TyphoonInvesti1 AKA 'Martin Aspen' could be connected to the original source of the report (which you may recall gave its author as 'M A'). This account pre-dates the earliest known published version of the report on Sep 3.
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25 Oct 20
I have been looking into the timeline of the "Typhoon Investigations" report which makes a number of allegations about links between the Bidens and the Chinese Communist Party. I've found a few interesting things.

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The earliest version of the report which I have found so far appears to have been posted on Sept 3 on a blog called 'Intelligence Quarterly.' The document shared is dated Aug 31st. PDF properties show that the file was authored by a user 'M A' on Sep 1st. archive.is/FTs2A ImageImage
Intelligence Quarterly is a blog 'dedicated to collecting important daily news on various topics into a clean, easy format.' It appears to have been running since 2010. It is currently using privacy protections, but was previously registered in 2016 to an Albert Marko (so, A M) ImageImage
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8 Oct 20
Since hostilities between #Azerbaijan and #Armenia flared up on Sep 27th, @AlbertYZhang and I have been documenting some of the shadow battle taking place on Twitter for control of the narrative aspi.org.au/report/snapsho…
It's important to caveat that this is not meant to be comprehensive; includes primarily English-language activity; that we have not attempted to verify content; and that we are not seeking to undermine legitimate social media debate. Nonetheless, we made some interesting findings
This included significant spikes in account creation on key days in the conflict, for example Sept 27 and, as well as spikes dating back to earlier clashes in July.
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6 Oct 20
I wrote for @GNET_research and @CSCRCoz about how we really don't understand digital-first conspiracy extremism yet. It's different from pre-digital conspiracies, and also different from digitISED extremism which begin offline and move online as a recruiting and comms strategy.
Much more research, and also simply more time, is needed to understand the dynamics of extremist conspiracy movements. In the meantime, however, we can prioritise what we do know:
Based on evidence so far, conspiracy extremists are likely to be lone actors, who have either self-radicalised or been a part of a social media community which has radicalised over time (although this could change in the future).
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