Alex Kaplan
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@AlKapDC
Senior Researcher @mmfa, focusing on social media misinfo/disinfo & online extremism. Statements are mine, not employer's. Send tips to [email protected]
MAGA influencers are suggesting Trump overthrew Maduro as revenge for Venezuela stealing the 2020 election -- and he's signaling they are right. mediamatters.org/foxdominion-la…
Trump last night shared images of posts & a video from a QAnon influencer known as "The SCIF," along with a video & a post from far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.
Robert Malone, who RFK Jr. has now appointed to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, suggested in a 2023 podcast appearance with Plandemic conspiracy theorist Mikki Willis that he's gotten "counsel" from Willis & was "very grateful" for that. mediamatters.org/media/4025990
Andrew Torba, the CEO of Gab, bragged in a new blog post that Gab "has irreversibly shifted the Overton Window to the right, making once-verboten topics part of the daily mainstream discourse," including "discussions on" the racist "great replacement" conspiracy theory.
Trump just posted this on Rob Reiner
Ed Martin, the DOJ's pardon attorney, apparently met last week with far-right conspiracy theorist Ann Vandersteel, who's promoted QAnon, Pizzagate, & sovereign citizen ideology. Vandersteel posted a photo of them together & Martin thanked Vandersteel for her "good counsel."
Some QAnon influencers today appeared to urge their followers to not pay their federal income taxes, calling for "mass noncompliance" & claiming they "haven’t voluntarily filed to pay my taxes to pedophiles since the 2020 stollen election."
New: Election denier Patrick Byrne, who has ties to the QAnon community, claimed in a Twitter/X Space that he's conducted "illegal activity ... hacking the government of Venezuela" & used materials from it before "a magistrate in Washington, D.C." mediamatters.org/voter-fraud-an…
New from me: -Lizard people -QAnon -9/11 Trutherism -Flat Earth Rumble's source code calls its “editor picks” section the “absolute real best of" the platform, but an ongoing @mmfa review found that the section repeatedly features conspiracy theories. mediamatters.org/rumble/rumbles…
The Trump administration has tapped a man who has repeatedly claimed that millions of people voted illegally in the 2016 presidential election to be one of the most important officials at the Federal Emergency Management Agency. wapo.st/4iLzbfW
