“While Opte is a striking and powerful visualization of the internet's size and impact, Lyon says the piece also ultimately depicts the internet's failure to become truly decentralized” wired.com/story/opte-int…

(I think I know why, see next tweet)
“Hubs are the strongest argument against the utopian vision of an egalitarian cyberspace” - excerpt from the book Linked by Dr Albert Lazlo Barabasi goodreads.com/book/show/1542…

This has stuck with me since I read it in 2018.
I was reading Dr. Barabasi’s book Linked while I was making QAnon graphs in spring of 2018

Anyway.. fascinating book. He has some interesting videos online too, highly recommend.

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25 Feb
I've been working on this research for what seems like an eternity: Visualizing Cyber Harassment

Content warning: this blog contains racist and anti-semitic language and terminology associated with sexual assault. erin-gallagher.medium.com/visualizing-cy…
I collected data over several months in 2019 to analyze & visualize part of a trolling network that some researchers have referred to as The Shed. Instead of a fixed group of known users, it's more like a hydra that is constantly regenerating new heads. erin-gallagher.medium.com/visualizing-cy…
Due to the complexity and constant fluctuation of this network, visualizing their digital footprint was very challenging. This research includes data visualizations of 316 sock puppet accounts for 5 unique personas associated with this trolling network. erin-gallagher.medium.com/visualizing-cy… Image
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18 Jan
Unmasking the Deceased Programmer Who Donated 28 Bitcoin to Capitol Hill Rioters. cryptobriefing.com/unmasking-dece…

French far-right hacker Laurent Bachelier aka "pankkake"
Here's the original investigation that found he sent 28.15 Bitcoins (about $522K) to 22 addresses, including many far-right US influencers & organizations blog.chainalysis.com/reports/capito… He also sent $26K to French neo-nazi & Holocaust denier Vincent Reynourard
The bitcoin donations were made on Dec 8, 2020, same day as his death, and a suicide note was auto-published on his blog on Dec 9, 2020 in 2 languages. If this death notice is accurate, he was 35: avis-deces.linternaute.com/nom/famille-ba… Image
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30 May 20
(2015) white supremacists opened fire on an encampment of Black Lives Matter protesters in Minneapolis and shot 5 people. For several nights they showed up in bullet-proof vests threatening people who were protesting the police killing of Jamar Clark. colorofchange.org/press_release/…
The police told the protesters “This is what you guys wanted”, did not help those who were shot and then they maced the protesters. theguardian.com/us-news/2015/n…
Historical tweets are educational. So you can see who the real infiltrators and agitators were 5 years ago. Also you can see the backlash from trolls who predictably turned the narrative around to deflect from the actual infiltrators and agitators.
Read 4 tweets
30 May 20
I tweeted 3 years worth of tweets about bots and social media manipulation on the @NewsRevo account, why is it suspended?
So much documentation is gone what the hell 😔
so much stuff and not just about bots
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28 May 20
Mark Zuckerberg is just trying to deflect some heat off himself because he knows his company radicalized the world.
I made some Facebook memes from quotes in the WSJ report
Isn’t this what Russia was accused of doing in 2016? Trying to sow division?
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27 May 20
I’ve documented high-volume MAGA twitter networks for several years. Conservatives are NOT silenced on social media. They are amplified by a right wing propaganda machine. medium.com/@erin_gallaghe…
Political spammers and right-wing power users flood the platform with MAGA propaganda every day. This is not censorship.
Besides the amplification of right-wing messaging on social media platforms, Fox News is the most influential cable news outlet and has been for years.
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