Roger Stone relied on deception to make unpopular views appear more popular than they were. “Facebook removes fake accounts posing as Floridians linked to Roger Stone” 7/8/20 1/ thedenverchannel.com/news/national/…
In July 2020, “Facebook…removed dozens of fake accounts… ‘linked to Roger Stone & his associates’ … ‘The people behind this activity used fake accounts…to pose as residents of Florida, [and] post & comment on their own content to make it appear more popular than it is…’” 2/
“Mueller investigators said Roger Stone orchestrated hundreds of fake Facebook accounts in political influence scheme” - 8/25/20 3/ cnn.com/2020/04/28/pol…
Charlie Kirk follows the same playbook, relying on deception to make fringe views appear popular. Do MAGAs like to be deceived or do they not know this? 4/ theguardian.com/technology/202…
6/ “Viral pro-Trump tweets came from fake African American spam accounts, Twitter says … Twitter has taken action to stop a spam operation that pushed messages from fake accounts about Black people abandoning the Democratic Party.” 8/27/20 nbcnews.com/tech/security/…
7/ “The fake accounts were purported to be run by Black people whose viral tweets received tens of thousands of shares in the past month.”
8/ “Twitter suspends fake accounts pretending to be Black Trump supporters” - 10/14/20 cnn.com/2020/10/14/tec…
9/ Jack Posobiec relies on deliberately deceptive tactics too.
In 2019, Mark Lutter—whose nonprofit received $$$ from the Thiel-backed Emergent Ventures in 2018—said, “we’re putting out a white paper looking at Venezuela…assuming this transfer of power does go thru … And if you u can get charter cities to be part of the conversation,” there is “opportunity…” 1/
William Donahue (president of College Republicans of America) says that he is promoting “integralism, not theocracy,” but his post misleadingly omits that “integralism” is shorthand for “Catholic integralism” & that the doctrine seeks to “integrate” Church & state. 1/ uscatholic.org/articles/20191…
Remember when Trump:
* Posted a photo of himself wielding a baseball bat next to a photo of Alvin Bragg?
* Mocked MSNBC anchor Ali Velshi for getting hit with a rubber bullet?
* Praised Greg Gianforte for assaulting a reporter?
* Joked about the assault on Paul Pelosi? 1/
The Daily Signal—launched by Heritage—gushes that JD Vance & Trump have “Orchestrated Deal to Save TikTok”
They omit that, as of June, prospective buyers include Oracle founder Larry Ellison (who helped Heritage w/ a Project 2025 database) & Thiel ally Marc Andreessen’s a16z. 1/
2/ Link to the Daily Signal article, which says nothing about Ellison, Oracle, Andreessen, or a16z. dailysignal.com/2025/09/15/how…
3/ “A consortium of companies, including Oracle [founded by Larry Ellison] … & a16z (Andreessen Horowitz), is back in the running to acquire TikTok. As reported by Bloomberg [in June]
…, the group is allegedly the buyer revealed by…Trump last weekend.” 7/3/25 datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/oracle…
The Daily Signal gushes that JD Vance (Peter Thiel’s protégée) & Trump have “Orchestrated Deal to Save TikTok,” adding that the US-backed buyer has yet to be named.
They omit that, as of June, one of the prospective buyers is a16z—founded by Thiel ally Marc Andreessen. 1/
👀The Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy has published an article by A3P attorney Josh Hammer, Timon Cline, & Yoram Hazony. It calls on SCOTUS to reverse the 1947 Everson case, which held that the Establishment Clause applies to states & requires church-state separation. 1/