-
election 2024
Trump's Shooting Rattled QAnon Believers. Then They Doubled Down
From the very first “Q drop” in 2017, which predicted Hillary Clinton’s imminent arrest, QAnon has made predictions that certain…
Read More » -
Culture
Gamergate’s Legacy Lives on in Attacks Against Kamala Harris
More moderators, stricter policies, mass bans, mea culpa proselytizing in front of Congress from leaders like Mark Zuckerberg, and repeated…
Read More » -
election 2024
Election Deniers Are Ramping Up Efforts to Disenfranchise US Voters
For the past six months, election denial groups across the United States have been laser-focused on efforts to purge voter…
Read More » -
moderation
TikTok Has a Nazi Problem
ISD reported this account, along with 49 other accounts, in June for breaching TikTok’s policies on hate speech, encouragement of…
Read More » -
election 2024
The Right Reacts to Biden’s Withdrawal: It’s a ‘Coup’
GOP lawmakers, right-wing influencers, and far-right supporters of former president Donald Trump immediately claimed that President Joe Biden’s decision to…
Read More » -
election 2024
Supporters Believe ‘Hand of God’ Saved Trump
“GOD protected President Trump yesterday,” claimed House Speaker Mike Johnson, who has been a major proponent of Christian nationalist ideology,…
Read More » -
algorithm woes
TikTok Pushed Young German Voters Toward Far-Right Party
TikTok helped promote Germany’s far-right extremist political party to young voters ahead of last month’s EU elections, even when they…
Read More » -
election 2024
The Right Is Blaming Women and DEI for the Secret Service’s Failure in Trump Shooting
As conspiracies and threats of violence flooded online spaces in the hours after former president Donald Trump was shot during…
Read More » -
Pennsylvania shooting
Far-Right Extremists Call for Violence and War After Trump Shooting
Far-right communities online lit up on Saturday night with calls for violence, retribution, and civil war in the wake of…
Read More » -
Politics
Trump Shooting Conspiracies Are Coming From Every Direction
Alex Jones, the school shooting conspiracist, ranted in a video posted to X that this was the beginning of a…
Read More »