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Fast Forward Laura Loomer Wears Yellow Star And Handcuffs Herself To Twitter HQ In Protest
Laura Loomer reportedly donned a yellow star and handcuffed herself to a Twitter office building in New York to protest what she calls its discrimination against conservative figures. “Twitter is upholding sharia when they ban me for tweeting facts about sharia law,” Loomer shouted on a livestream of her protest, referring to Islamic law. The…
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Fast Forward Congressman Uses Auction Skills To Drown Out Laura Loomer’s Protest
The “alt-right” Jewish activist and self-proclaimed “citizen journalist” Laura Loomer interrupted Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s congressional testimony to protest losing her verification as part of the social media platform’s purge of hate figures. “You are a liar, Jack Dorsey,” she shouted, holding up her phone with a pink selfie stick as she called on President…
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Fast Forward Publishing Platform Medium Suspends ‘Alt-Right’ Accounts
The online publishing platform Medium suspended the accounts of multiple high-profile figures associated with the far-right and “alt-right,” including Mike Cernovich and Laura Loomer, as part of an update to its terms and conditions. Medium’s update, conducted earlier this month, stated that the platform does “not allow posts or accounts that engage in on-platform, off-platform,…
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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 After Terror Attack, Laura Loomer Shifts Media’s Attention To Herself
On Tuesday afternoon, Laura Loomer was busy prepping her Halloween costume while tweeting about how the FBI had mishandled the Las Vegas shooting investigation. But as soon as she saw news of a vehicular terror attack in New York City, she sprung into action. Responding to reports that the driver had yelled “Allahu akhbar” upon…
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Fast Forward Laura Loomer Banned From Uber And Lyft For Anti-Muslim Tweets
Laura Loomer, a far-right activist and self-styled “citizen journalist,” was banned from Uber and Lyft after a series of racist tweets yesterday, Business Insider reported. The two largest rideshare companies disabled Loomer’s accounts after she tweeted that she “never want[s] to support another Islamic immigrant driver.” Loomer was at the crime scene of the truck-ramming…
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Fast Forward Laura Loomer blames New York terror on ‘all Muslims’
Using the hashtags #banIslam and #proudIslamophobe, Loomer called Islam “cancer” and tweeted that all Muslims are responsible for the deadly violence
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Forward 50 2017 Laura Loomer
‘Alt-Right’ Provocateur Or New-Wave Jewish Journalist? It’s hard to know how exactly to categorize Jewish “alt-right” personality Laura Loomer. Through a series of stunts, articles and social media campaigns, the proudly Jewish Loomer has embraced the anti-immigrant, anti-Islam platform of the fringe right, minus the anti-Semitism. Is she a performance artist? Or perhaps the Jewish…
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