Twitter re-platformed extremists — and it’s paying off in ad money
Turns out that extremism draws clicks, and clicks mean ad dollars
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While millions of Americans watched Wednesday’s surreal events unfold on cable news outlets and mainstream media websites, at least 16,000 watched the insurrectionists invade the U.S. Capitol building in real time via livestreams posted by members of the mob themselves. Instead of Norah O’Donnell or Anderson Cooper, their host was a 33-year-old neo-Nazi who has…
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Fast Forward Richard Spencer, Laura Loomer Unverified On Twitter For ‘Promoting Hate’
Laura Loomer and Richard Spencer are among a string of prominent far-right figures to have lost their verification badges on Twitter on Wednesday, Newsweek reported. Jason Kessler, the organizer of the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, and “Baked Alaska”, a prominent “alt-right” figure, also lost the site’s signature blue check marks. Twitter framed the…
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Fast Forward Pepe The Frog Creator Sues To Take His Meme Back From ‘Alt-Right’
Pepe the Frog creator Matt Furie is taking new legal action against the “alt-right” for using illustrations of his cartoon, the amphibian character that has become an iconic meme of the far-right. Furie has protested the transformation of his cartoon character into a cartoon associated with racism and anti-Semitism and is seeking to disassociate the…
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Fast Forward Laura Loomer Is Dating Neo-Nazi Who Once Trolled Her With Gas Chamber Meme
Laura Loomer, the young Jewish voice of the far right, says she has struck up an unlikely romance with Tim Gionet — the online troll better known as Baked Alaska who previously tweeted a picture of Loomer in a gas chamber. A love story better than “The Notebook”. ❤️? @bakedalaska https://t.co/yFPtvRIuAE — Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer)…
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