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swag

(26,487 posts)
Thu Nov 5, 2020, 10:59 AM Nov 2020

Pro-Trump misinformation, incitement on the move

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1324352830619176961.html

. . . Good morning. Here is a new thread on misinformation and other garbage we're seeing across the internet, 2 days after Election Day. If yesterday's volume was misinformation around election results, today I am most worried about real-life action stemming from private online spaces

. . . In case you missed @BrandyZadrozny + @oneunderscore__'s reporting last night, a Facebook anti-lockdown group with 79,000+ members mobilized to drive people to a vote-counting location in Detroit. Facebook later shut down the group.

. . . There is a pro-Trump “Stop The Steal” group on Facebook alleging all kinds of baseless election fraud. A rabbithole of misinformation. The group is gaining about 1,000 new members EVERY 10 SECONDS at the moment.

. . . Yesterday evening a vote counting center in Maricopa County, AZ had to close because of a sizable crowd that had gathered outside. You might've seen this on CNN. It was organized by Pizzagate pusher Mike Cernovich. They shouted "Protect The Vote"

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Pro-Trump misinformation, incitement on the move (Original Post) swag Nov 2020 OP
And they're just getting started. FoxNewsSucks Nov 2020 #1
This has been a big concern of mine. NoRoadUntravelled Nov 2020 #2
Stop the Facebook Steal of the election! Miigwech Nov 2020 #3
Authoritarian followers. Learn about this. Learn who they are. marylandblue Nov 2020 #4
True. They will follow whoever tRump tells them to. For the right price, he'll hand them over. NoRoadUntravelled Nov 2020 #5
 

Miigwech

(3,741 posts)
3. Stop the Facebook Steal of the election!
Thu Nov 5, 2020, 11:14 AM
Nov 2020

Fuckerberg needs to make this lock-down priority #1. Shut this shit down instantaneously. These folks are fomenting sedition.

marylandblue

(12,344 posts)
4. Authoritarian followers. Learn about this. Learn who they are.
Thu Nov 5, 2020, 11:24 AM
Nov 2020

They are up for grabs now and every would be dictator is going to make a play for them now. Whoever wins, will be just like Trump, only smarter and less irritating.

NoRoadUntravelled

(2,626 posts)
5. True. They will follow whoever tRump tells them to. For the right price, he'll hand them over.
Thu Nov 5, 2020, 11:42 AM
Nov 2020

And they will go willingly because he says so.

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