Category Archives: Alt Right

The Women of the Far Right: Social Media Influencers and Online Radicalization

Here are some highlights from this 2023 book by sociologist Eviane Leidig: * In May 2019, then twenty-three-year-old Canadian Lauren Southern posted on her website, laurensouthern.net, a farewell message titled “A New Chapter.” In it, Lauren 1 stated that over … Continue reading

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Are you feeling demoralized by the psy-ops? (1-14-24)

01:00 Danielle Allen: Justice By Means of Democracy, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15392605:00 Richard Spencer Space on anonymity and dissident politics, https://twitter.com/RichardBSpencer/status/174631837270564895328:00 NYT: How College-Educated Republicans Learned to Love Trump Again, https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/14/us/politics/trump-college-educated-voters.html 38:00 Building the greatest stereo and destroying your family in the process, … Continue reading

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Analyzing Internet Freedom Activist Mike Benz aka Frame Game Radio

Kristen Ruby made this transcript of part of my video: Frame Games was a public commentator in 2016-2018. He was alt right adjacent, openly Jewish, but he kept his name and identity and face hidden. Brandy Zadrozny at NBC News … Continue reading

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The New Yorker: Jim Jordan’s Conspiratorial Quest for Power – How the Ohio Republican built an insurgent bid for Speaker on the lies of Donald Trump.

Jonathan Blitzer writes: * …online conspiracists began claiming that Starbird and other researchers at the Election Integrity Partnership had colluded with the Department of Homeland Security to censor twenty-two million tweets during the 2020 election. This was, Starbird told me, … Continue reading

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NBC News: Michael Benz, a conservative crusader against online censorship, appears to have a secret history as an alt-right persona

Brandy Zadrozny writes: Frame Game, the pseudonym of an alt-right internet personality, hid his face while pushing racist conspiracy theories. Inadvertent slips revealed details about his identity. Michael Benz, a former Trump State Department official whose work has been cited … Continue reading

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