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I research information operations with @Graphika_NYC. If we had all stayed on tumblr none of this would be happening 🪩✨ find me on https://t.co/QO8nEpOYoB
Jul 18, 2019 9 tweets 4 min read
Thread: After CNN was rightly criticized by experts for platforming a literal white nationalist on a pre-packaged segment, both Jake Tapper and Brian Stelter reacted defensively, Stelter saying the focus should be on HOW to include extremists in coverage and not on "whether". So I looked at "how" CNN has covered extremism. It's not great: its quoted white nationalists and taken their word at face value.
Mar 7, 2019 5 tweets 4 min read
On thing is obvious from going through the Discord chats of white supremacist group Identity Evropa: they're huge fans of Fox's Tucker Carlson, and admire his strategic subtleness. His white supremacist talking points are not lost on them. For context, @UR_Ninja leaked yesterday hundreds of thousands of Discord chats from servers associated with the white supremacist group Identity Evropa. They've made them available here: unicornriot.ninja/2019/neo-nazi-…