“Among those cheering on the hate-trollers [of Christine Blasey Ford] were…Roger Stone, his alt-media protégés Mike Cernovich and Jack Posobiec, anarchist…Cassandra Fairbanks, and breathless Infowars conspiracist-in-chief Alex Jones.” 10/2018 1/ wired.com/story/informat…
“This is an operational unit of information terrorists helping to transform the way Americans consume news in the age of Trump—some of the central nodes that give order to the information deluge & around which bot armies & human amplification networks can be organized, … 2/
… wiped out, reconstituted, and armed for attack.” 3/ by @MollyMcKew
“Because that is what they do: attack. Many reporters who cover this phenomenon have themselves been swarmed by attacks and harassment from the digital insurgency that these information terrorists—call them the cadre—command.” 4/
“Information terrorism is not a term I apply lightly. But if you accept the core definition of terrorism as ‘the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims,’ then there are few terms more apt… 5/
… to describe what this group has unleashed against their fellow Americans.” 6/
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