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23 Jun, 4 tweets, 1 min read
This was posted to McAfee's Instagram and is running wild in QAnon ecosystems unsurprisingly. Some are saying he had information Hilary, others said he's Epstein 2.0, others asking if he was Q?
The exact timestamp indicated possibly a scheduled post: 2021-06-23T20:10:04.000Z h/t to my buddy @JordanWildon
The time and timestamp indicated that this was a planned post troll, he's last post was October 2020 and the one before that November 19. The infrequency of his Instragram post raises a red flag with this last one and begs the question if someone with account access is trolling
Based on reporting the post was also made after his death announcement.

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22 Jun
1/ I agree with Jordan, the original tweet by @APerliger makes some excellent points; however, I would have to disagree as Jordan did. There is plenty of evidence of the transnationalisation of the far right that is not anecdotal. AWD, The Base, FKD, are examples of this.l
2/ It's also remember that when taking ecosystems approach to IMVE actors there are plenty of examples of this. The recent InjektDivision case showed how the actor was networked with domestic and international ecosystems.
3/ Now this is not the traditional physical FTFs, and I agree with @APerliger there; though we now should talk about ecosystem rather than groups this it makes this space more nebulous
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18 Jun
Wrote yesterday about a QAnon influencer with 338k followers has gone full neo-nazi. He is picking these narratives, "arguments", or images from neo-nazi ecosystems. The difference? This individual has more followers than the entire ecosystem I monitor.
The average violent extremist channel on telegram has 100-300 followers. A large channel has 1,000-3,000. This account has 100,000 times that. Long term education and investment in social programs are important. Short term it is hard to say what is a viable option for this scale.
Might be a pessimist. But would be interested in seeing studies or options for large scale prevention strategies for this.
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18 Jun
15-year-old schoolgirl is due to stand trial on six terror charges after she was allegedly caught with a bomb-making video. The teenager, from Derbyshire, is also accused of having instructions on how to build a gun using a 3D printer. bbc.com/news/uk-englan…
Second instance this week where someone is charged for possession 3D-printed gun parts or instructions
This is also the second offence of a teen from Derbyshire this year being charged with a terrorism offence. I would be curious to see if they are networked or not . bbc.com/news/uk-englan…
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15 Jun
As @milleridriss hilights "you can’t tackle domestic extremism by only paying attention to the fringe you also have to pay attention to what’s happening in the mainstream."
This speak to the fact that there needs to be a shift in how we look at extremists
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Working and researching in this space we need to consider the current iteration of threat actors from a network and systems perspective. This is something I've been discussing with @AlexBNewhouse, @Adnanr23 @AmarAmarasingam, and @JordanWildon.
The amorphous nature of threat actors and the crosspollination of ideologies, grievances and narratives -due to the functionality of alt-tech spaces- as well as shifts in the type of threat actors in the pre-radicalization space means we need to take a big picture approach.
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15 Jun
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.
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14 Jun
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.
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