We're being firehosed again, and it's in the service of a disinformation attack that is particularly geared toward leveraging unexamined misogyny into attacks on women. Been going on a few weeks now
Mostly I'm seeing it in the form of journalists and disinformation "experts," quotes because they're not fucking experts when they keep falling for the same shit over and over, attacking high-profile subject matter experts who also happen to be women
I don't know who might be behind it (although of course I have my own ideas), nor what the goal might be (although naturally I have ideas about that too.) All I can say is that disinfo channels are pushing anti-woman horseshit and a bunch of dudes are eagerly taking the bait
You learn a lot about dudes in the disinfo world when you're one of the only women around running a counterdisinformation site
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Discourse by Fox, OANN, Newsmax hosts and the elected officials who consider that viewership to be "their base" is directly playing into attacks like this. There have been several attacks on health workers the last couple weeks baltimoresun.com/news/crime/bs-…
Story without paywall here. This is what all the Doctor's Plot shit is aimed at doing -- triggering unstable people into committing acts in highly politicized ways wbaltv.com/article/jeffre…
These attacks will continue to escalate until this weaponized shit is deplatformed entirely
Which is a #TantonNetwork lie that he is using in an apparent attempt to change the subject from the fact that the federal gov told him yesterday that if he keeps stealing COVID-19 relief funds to use for fascist anti-masker bullshit they won't give Arizona any more money
You do notice the pattern, right? Whenever somebody gets into trouble for doing corrupt shit, about fifteen like-minded electeds put on camo and head for the border like they're doing some Nam bullshit. Here's yesterday's story apnews.com/article/corona…
Like when Ted Cruz got mocked for trying to flee the country when a bunch of his constituents died thanks to horrible decisions he had a hand in so he had to do a documentary theguardian.com/us-news/2021/m…
It's the #TanttonNetwork spreading inhumane disinfo about the border again. It's what their politicians reliably return to when they need to distract the public from some atrocity or policy failure
This. We can make this much better. We can live up to the promises we made the people of the world. We have to be open to change and demand better for all of us