The next wave of online tactics used by the alt-right are being deployed, right now, in the world of comics. How long before they hit the mainstream?
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Accusing a political figure of facilitating child rape does not violate Facebook's community standards
Facebook has community standards. They're just very, very low.
Breitbart's difficult third act
Is Brietbart, the alt-right site that cheered Trump and succoured Milo, in trouble? A Newsweek profile explores how it’s finding life in power much harder than opposition: After the London Bridge attack at the beginning of this month, Breitbart…
One neglected media business model: snake oil
You may have heard of Infowars – it’s widely regarded to be a Trump-supporting purveyor of fake news, another hub of the alt-right. And it’s making money hand over fist. How? By selling dietary supplements: A representative from PowerReviews,…
Journalism is losing the culture war, because it's fighting last century's battles
The Guardian’s SnowCuck-General* Martin Belam has hit the nail on the head with some of the problems inherent to the current fact-checking culture in response to a political movement prepared to flat-out lie to us: […] I’m reminded of…
Alt-right subreddits closed for doxing
Reddit has closed two major alt-right subreddits: Reddit today blocked two prominent alt-right subreddits over “the proliferation of personal and confidential information.” Commonly referred to as ‘doxing,’ it appears a user (or users) of r/altright and r/AlternativeRight intentionally…
The Alt Right media embraced social media with a passion few others can match
John Herrman on the social media power and savvy of the alt-right media, in a piece for the New York Times: The pro-Trump media understood that it was an insurgent force in a conversation conducted on social media on an…
The new, hyperpartisan media
This piece on hyperpartisan Facebook pages, from Buzzfeed, becomes even more compelling in the light of today’s news: Our analysis of three hyperpartisan right-wing Facebook pages found that 38% of all posts were either a mixture of true and…