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Aug 9 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
1/ Christopher Pretula's vile anti-trans tirade on a #HamOnt bus last week led us into the extremely hostile and aggressive world of "IRL streaming," and Pretula's own history of racism, misogyny, and trolling.🧵antihate.ca/man_charged_pa…
2/ Regularly posting to YouTube in short video clips or long streams lasting 5+ hours, Pretula - who streams as "Mr. Bum Tickler" is facing two charges, according to the Hamilton Police, who are seeking to have the incident classified as a hate offence. hamiltonpolice.on.ca/news/hamilton-…
3/ Our investigation into Pretula revealed that he is a prolific member of the online streaming community, IP2. Unknown to most of the public, IP2 is a small but extremely engaged internet community dedicated to taking online trolling into the streets.

nickpinkerton.substack.com/p/livesteam-fo…
4/ In addition to his aggressive "IRL" content, Pretula's online footprint on the IP2 forums includes comments like "Christchurch massacre was funny AF" and "stop giving rape victims a platform." He also wrote about carrying a knife everywhere he goes.
5/ A huge amount of online hate is made up of fanbases and influencers. Chris Pretula of #HamOnt is one part of a whole subculture built around dehumanization and hateful harassment.

And there are real, offline consequences as a result. /end

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Aug 9
On July 28th we received a “Cease and Desist” from James Topp or a member of his team at @CanadaMarches. We responded a few hours later to address the falsehoods in the letter and to have a conversation with Mr. Topp like the letter asked. 🧵
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🧵We located Veterans For Freedom's 'Camp Eagle,' where the far-right are staging for their Ottawa protests this summer.

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Jul 2
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🧵We'll be dropping updates and information from researchers and journalists about various #CanadaDay incidents and events in this thread. ⬇️

If you see something we should include, send us a DM!

#CanadaDay2022 #Ottawa #cdnpoli #cdnmedia
We'll start with a roundup of some coverage from yesterday.

@atRachelGilmore covered Poilievre's walk with James Topp here:
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Former Canadian Proud Boys are running a neo-Nazi propaganda network. Its largest Telegram channel, Western Chauvinist, (now defunct) had over 42K followers. Now, they’re networking with other groups like the Hammerskins & trying to organize in-person
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3/
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