OMG way to fall for an obvious clickbait! Congratulations 👏. 1) you still see the watermarks from the stock photo site. 2) a reverse image search with invid does not return any instance of this image.
3) keywords searches for the price, date, or inauguration does not return this image in QAnon ecosystems. 4) in most cases tickets to events are e-tickets, yet since the venue is the capitol steps there would be tickets 🙄.
5) logic tells us that these type of mass events are usually organized with: accross various social media sites for weeks, posters, propaganda, and influencers talking about it before tickets are ever sold.
So lets all put our big girl and big boy pants on, make an effort at doing minimal fact checking AND NOT AMPLIFY OBVIOUS CLICK BAIT FROM MAGA TROLLS. This literally took me 5 minutes before my morning coffee. But thank you to all useful idiots amplifying this fear mongering.
Someone verify her already she knows how to google and not retweet jokes posted on /pol/.... I mean any more advanced qualifications are not required apparently
And here is @fr_brennan finding the original image
Police issue warning over terrorist use of 3D-printed guns as UK neo-Nazi jailed in first terror case involving 3D-printed gun parts in Britain independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/…
This is an interesting case as charges are being laid for having made parts of a gun even though it was not functional combine that with the material that he had on him and the channel was running on Telegram the combination is what's concerning
Now I don't think we need to be banning 3D printers and investigating those who owned them but I think it's an interesting indicator of the type of shift we're seeing in the terrorism space as it may provide more vectors for producing individual attacks.
QAnon in it's form under Trump may no longer exist. However, I do not think that we can say QAnon or its legacy is finished. This month alone we saw political actors and elected officials speak or attend a QAnon conference.
There are multiple events coming up linked to QAnon or those willing to leverage QAnon.
Is it a fringe conspiracy theory? No. Is "Q" active? No. Are influencers as capable to mobilize people as before? No. However, QAnon and it's conspiracy theories have found a home in the GOP
The deplatforming, the loss of the election for Trump, the absence of Q has impacted the mass movement. Yet the ideology and the adherents haven't gone anyone. Their need behind their adherence to QAnon and their conspiratorial thinking has not disappeared.
This was already stated by @AlexBNewhouse but I'm going to hammer this in: those in the Accelerationist ecosystem never went away after a named group goes belly up. These actors were still present and active. The return to using FKD is in part branding.
The group was recently proscribed by several countries & it's a known brand in IMVE ecosystems & by the media. Falling for the brand is a failure in proper investigation, when those who monitor these spaces regularly would be able to say these actors haven't magically reappeared.
Part of this has come to the surface due to the arrest of the individual from InjektDivision who was arrested last week. Following that event FKD endorsed them as the two networks mutually backed each other. The community grew to 100 after the incident and the media reporting.
Always good to see the neo-nazi edge lords celebrating pride month.
@TikTokCanada@tiktok_us take note of how they are embedding images in the video (2.4 million views) and also the behavioral and communal reinforcing in the chat.
To note, the image is not one that would be hashed, rather they are appropriating the new pride flag, the chart upward emoji 📈 in this context is being used for a nazi salute.
The reason I am highlighting this is because there is no easy way for platforms to keep on top of these new trends and new content, that fall outside of the known hate and violent content that exists. this is why trusted partners with SMEs are important.
This is a great report by @Graphika_NYC "Actors linked to previous Russian information operations continue to target American far-right communities with inflammatory and politically-divisive messaging, leveraging alternative online platforms" graphika.com/reports/posing…
what they found was a sustained effort to target far-right communities on alternative online platforms. The campaign was mostly on patriots[.]win where it utilizes a set of 20 inauthentic accounts as messaging vectors and amplifiers.
accounts on Gab and Parler were also used and were part of the earlier NAEBC operation. On multiple occasions, they posted the same unique content, usually closely after but sometimes before it appeared on patriots[.]win
This is a good read that brings up key policy points. As the piece states "Some argue, however, that the labeling of these organisations would not have the desired impact in terms of stopping attacks, because of the decentralised and individualistic nature of far-right groups."
Each country also has different strategies when it comes to labeling countries and some are legalistic, whole others are political. Also labeling a group might give it more credibility than it really has.