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(54,752 posts) Fri Apr 9, 2021, 07:47 PM Apr 2021

Leaked 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

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 infighting—as well as a general lack of interest from prospective attendees. What’s 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 Sunday’s 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 didn’t know what to believe anymore. “Why is this happening?” wrote one user with the handle “JD.” “I’m so fucking sick of this shit.”

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