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14 Apr, 4 tweets, 1 min read
The Krassensteins, anti-Trump Twitter personalities when Trump was president, are now promoting a cryptocurrency feature from Ali Alexander, a far-right figure who organized the "Stop The Steal" efforts leading to the insurrection (Alexander amplified their praise).
The Krassensteins have also participated in multiple Clubhouse chatrooms with Alexander about cryptocurrency efforts.
Ali Alexander and Ed Krassenstein are in a Clubhouse chatroom together about cryptocurrency efforts right now.
The Krassensteins have now defended their association with Ali Alexander.

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7 Apr
New from me: Months after YouTube announced a crackdown on QAnon, the platform is still hosting multiple channels airing shows supporting the conspiracy theory, some of which run ads. That includes multiple ban evasion channels for banned QAnon figures. mediamatters.org/google/despite…
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29 Mar
New from me: Alternative streaming platforms have become major hotspots for coronavirus vaccine misinformation, & links to or copies of the videos have spread onto mainstream platforms like Facebook & Instagram. mediamatters.org/coronavirus-co…
In recent months, videos attacking COVID vaccines have gotten millions of combined views on these alternative streaming platforms. And in turn they've earned (at least) hundreds of thousands of Facebook combined engagements -- undermining FB's coronavirus vaccine misinfo ban.
And earlier this month, a video from one of those alternative streaming platforms, Rumble, was repackaged on Instagram, getting it more than 100,000 views.
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25 Mar
This lawsuit makes some blatantly false claims. Contrary to what this lawsuit claims, the Flynns absolutely took a QAnon oath last July. In June, "Q" had posted the exact same oath that the Flynns recited in that video. "Q" also wrote, "take the oath."
And like the Flynns, others subsequently took the same oath on video to follow the request made by "Q" & then posted it online.
It is also dishonest to act like the Flynn family does not have other connections to QAnon and that they took this QAnon oath in a vacuum. For example, Joseph Flynn has gone on QAnon shows & tweeted the QAnon slogan multiple times. thedailybeast.com/michael-flynns…
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25 Mar
A reminder that Chrissy Teigen has been a major target of QAnon & Pizzagate supporters. Harassment of her by a QAnon influencer in December 2017 (who invoked QAnon in her harassment) was one of the first significant QAnon-related incidents. nymag.com/intelligencer/…
Last July, Teigen said she had to block a significant number of QAnon accounts harassing her. Twitter announced its initial QAnon crackdown days after that. washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07…
QAnon influencers attacked Chrissy Teigen over leaving Twitter. One of the biggest QAnon Telegram channels -- made up of QAnon influencers who used to be on/gained their followers from Twitter -- even bragged that it was "us anons who got" her "to lock her account."
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17 Mar
A false conspiracy theory has spread widely in the far-right internet (not just within the QAnon community) that some incident involving a microphone and Biden talking to reporters shows he and the incident were somehow faked.
Since Biden was inaugurated, QAnon supporters have pushed false claims of supposed proof that Biden hasn't really been president & his activities as president haven't been real. This may be the first time those claims have in some manner really spread elsewhere in the far-right.
A conspiracy theory TikTok account has gotten nearly 80,000 views for this false conspiracy theory.
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12 Feb
We're now hearing multiple cases of people refusing to get the coronavirus vaccine due to the false coronavirus vaccine microchip conspiracy theory -- which came from social media. mediamatters.org/coronavirus-co… huffpost.com/entry/children…
The conspiracy theory started going viral about 11 months ago. Social media platforms didn't even try to crack down on it until late in the year -- & even then enforcement has been lacking. mediamatters.org/coronavirus-co…
It was clear soon after the conspiracy theory went viral how dangerous it was. And yet the platforms allowed it to spread without any response for months. And now we're seeing people refusing to get the vaccine as a result.
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