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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLeaked Chats Show 'White Lives Matter' Movement in Shambles After Antifa Infiltration
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Tess Owen
@misstessowen
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Apr 9, 2021
"White Lives Matter" is supposedly holding rallies across the U.S. on Sunday. But it's an absolute shit show at White Lives Matter's HQ (on Telegram) which has been plagued by paranoia, infighting and "optics" disputes from the get-go
Leaked Chats Show White Lives Matter Movement in Shambles After Antifa Infiltration
What an absolute garbage dumpster fire, one Telegram user wrote.
vice.com
Tess Owen
@misstessowen
On Thursday, several White Lives Matter Telegram channels abruptly changed their avatars to antifa flags, and revealed themselves to be antifa "honeypots," yet another setback for the beleaguered movement
1:25 PM · Apr 9, 2021
Tess Owen
@misstessowen
·
Apr 9, 2021
"White Lives Matter" is supposedly holding rallies across the U.S. on Sunday. But it's an absolute shit show at White Lives Matter's HQ (on Telegram) which has been plagued by paranoia, infighting and "optics" disputes from the get-go
Leaked Chats Show White Lives Matter Movement in Shambles After Antifa Infiltration
What an absolute garbage dumpster fire, one Telegram user wrote.
vice.com
Tess Owen
@misstessowen
On Thursday, several White Lives Matter Telegram channels abruptly changed their avatars to antifa flags, and revealed themselves to be antifa "honeypots," yet another setback for the beleaguered movement
1:25 PM · Apr 9, 2021
https://www.vice.com/en/article/88n48z/leaked-chats-show-white-lives-matter-movement-in-shambles-after-antifa-infiltration
Just days before a series of White Lives Matter rallies were to take place in cities across the U.S., the movement has fallen into shambles after antifascists posed as event organizers and lured unsuspecting racists to join several fake Telegram channels.
On Thursday, the administrators of the "White Lives Matter" channels for Seattle and New Jersey suddenly changed their avatar to an antifa flag and revealed themselves to be a honeypot, created to draw in extremists and glean information about them. The NYC White Lives Matter channel followed suit.
This marks yet another major setback for the White Lives Matter movement, which began organizing The March for White Lives on the encrypted messaging platform last month. Since announcing the IRL rallies, the movement has been plagued with paranoia, intrigue, and infightingas well as a general lack of interest from prospective attendees. Whats more, VICE News has obtained leaked chats from a private White Lives Matter admin channel, suggesting that antifa infiltration at the highest levels was even worse than organizers thought.
By Friday morning, White Lives Matter organizers were doing damage control, trying to assure the public all was well ahead of Sundays big event in cities across the country. To quickly clarify. Antifa did not infiltrate the 'nation admins'. No, they wrote in a statement on a Telegram channel that has over 2,000 subscribers. Antifa infiltrated a small, semi-public chat where people were reminded to keep the content clean on their channel.
But some subscribers to the channel didnt know what to believe anymore. Why is this happening? wrote one user with the handle JD. Im so fucking sick of this shit.
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Leaked Chats Show 'White Lives Matter' Movement in Shambles After Antifa Infiltration (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Apr 2021
OP
I love the Anitfa movement, that sort of isn't. Those people just keep doing their job.
Biophilic
Apr 2021
#5
Karadeniz
(22,514 posts)1. What a shame...
yardwork
(61,608 posts)2. This makes me smile.
TheBlackAdder
(28,193 posts)4. I actually laughed out loud! 😂
BobTheSubgenius
(11,563 posts)8. Me too!
I'm going to bed in a great mood!
StClone
(11,683 posts)3. Of shit shows and honeypots: sounds about right.
Biophilic
(3,653 posts)5. I love the Anitfa movement, that sort of isn't. Those people just keep doing their job.
David__77
(23,390 posts)6. Anti-fascist heroes!
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flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)7. "optics" disputes at White Lives Matter
If only someone could have seen that coming.
Demovictory9
(32,456 posts)9. lol