Thread by @DataRepublican

🧵THREAD: "Fake MAGA," Foreign Ops & the Nick Fuentes Factor

This week on X has been chaotic, and every influencer I've talked to feels it.

A new report dropped, and it's making serious claims: that foreign propaganda accounts are masquerading as MAGA to hijack conservative spaces and even push people to turn on Trump himself.

The report goes beyond analyzing bots and foreign actors. It names names. And the New York post article buried the lede: it explicitly calls out Nick Fuentes and his network as central amplifiers.

Nick Fuentes is the third rail of MAGA X, and for good reason; to speak of him is to invite wrath and harassment. I could've left this volatile topic alone and I know I would've been better off for it.

But when I see what @SarahisCensored has endured - and the grace and courage she's shown - it's a reminder of 2 Timothy 1:7: "For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and a sound mind." ... how can I possibly stay silent?

It’s time we break the taboo of calling out wolves in MAGA clothing, even the ones the bots prop up. I read the entire report. Now I'm going to walk you through what it really says.

And what we need to watch for. 👇

Patience as I assemble this thread in real time.

. @SarahIsCensored , a pregnant independent journalist, was the last major influencer to speak ill of Nick Fuentes. Her life has been made hell as a result. This is a small sampling of the harassment she has received:

@SarahisCensored Another sampling. The screenshots were so vulgar, I could not post them all.

I share them to show what it means to cross Nick Fuentes. And that if we are to clean our own house, we must be prepared to confront a great evil.

@SarahisCensored Nick Fuentes literally had his followers swear to kill, rape, and die for him.

@SarahisCensored Now moving onto the actual report.

It is published by Network Contagion Research Institute - a NGO with opaque funding and less than transparent motives. It has impressive data science, but the way it presents it is often biased.

It was founded by Joel Finkelstein, and the NCRI itself has been used to suppress disinformation and promote pro-government narrative.

I say this because I want to acknowledge the motives behind this report. That being said, it does a reasonable job of keeping - for example, in dissecting the usage of "Christ is King," they explicitly greenlit @JackPosobiec - something many with an agenda fail to do.

@SarahisCensored So why even pay attention to the report? Because I was able to independently verify information within in it.

@SarahisCensored The gist of the report: Foreign state actors and bots amplify a handful of X accounts making controversial posts, the foremost among them being Nick Fuentes and his followers.

An example is the 21 May killing of the Israel embassy staffers.

We now know that Elias Rodriguez, the killer, was a member of the PSL (despite their denials). And we also now know that PSL is backed by Neville Singham, who is under Congressional investigation for acting on the behalf of CCP.

Foreign state actors certainly would want to keep this information hidden and amplify the "false flag" narrative!

And indeed, this is what happened: Nick Fuente's "false flag" post got 48K likes, and NCRI noted bot-like 💯 responses. Now, caveat: X's comment hiding system is odd and I was only able to view a few dozen comments or so out of the 1.2K comments he got, so I wasn't able to independently verify that part.

However, @SarahisCensored has commented to me many times that she noticed this same phenomenon. And others have noticed as well.

Nick Fuentes' army is artificially boosted in some part. And it seems reasonable that foreign actors invested in splintering the MAGA coalition is the reaosn why.

@SarahisCensored Note the timestamps. The pattern typically is: Nick Fuentes Xeets out something controversial and divisive of MAGA - such as Trump being implicated in Epstein files - and the alleged bad actors amplify and follow.

@SarahisCensored Now, I want to emphasize that this report IS biased in naming certain Xeets as actors for foreign interests.

For example, it accuses DravenNoctis of pushing pro-Kremlin narratives. But that does not mean DravenNoctis is acting on the behalf of Russia.

@SarahisCensored However, others like Jackson Hinkle do seem to be genuine actors of the Russian state - he regularly gives interviews to pro-Russia outlets and moved to Moscow.

@SarahisCensored Cyabra, a software suite aimed to detect bots, detected that 24% of accounts pushing the "false flag" narrative after May 21 were bots.

@SarahisCensored Per the report, Megatron_ron, another X account implicated as a foreign actor, has borrowed from Iran's state media reporting word-for-word as recently as 12 June.

@SarahisCensored And I'll stop here - you can read the report for yourself. It isn't perfect, but it raises serious, well-documented concerns.

Circumstantial evidence points to foreign actors using the Groypers as a vehicle to splinter the MAGA movement.

God bless. And stay frosty. 🇺🇸