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What is the 'boogaloo' movement that's being banned by Facebook?
The Guardian
Lois Beckett 21 mins ago
For months, in private and public Facebook groups, young American men have discussed killing federal agents and how to prepare for a coming civil war. They have shared carefully posed photographs of their guns and body armor and posted tributes to people they see as martyrs to government oppression.
This anti-government “boogaloo” rhetoric has already been publicly linked to at least least 15 arrests and five deaths, including the murder of a federal security guard and a sheriff’s deputy in California, according to media reports and analysts who track extremists.
Facebook, the primary social media platform for boogaloo discussions, announced on Tuesday that it was banning a network of violent “boogaloo” groups, and designating them as a dangerous organization similar to the Islamic State group and white supremacists. Researchers who have followed the growth of Boogaloo on the platform say the move was “too little, too late”.
Members of the ‘boogaloo’ movement wear Hawaiian shirts paired with body armor and a military-style rifle.
The Trump administration has done even less to address the growth of this new violent rightwing movement, one with strong overlaps with neo-Nazi and white supremacist organizing.
When Donald Trump tweeted angrily about “Treason, Sedition, Insurrection!” in late June, he was not denouncing the young men who are openly calling for civil war, but the nonviolent Black Lives Matter movement. Many black activist organizations are currently focused on defunding police departments and reinvesting the money in community services.
The Department of Homeland Security has publicly denied that the “boogaloo” movement is rightwing, and tweeted an attack on a news outlet that correctly labeled it.
The justice department announced last week that it was creating a taskforce on domestic extremism, but said the task force would focus not only on the rightwing “boogaloo” movement, but also on leftwing anti-fascist activists, who are being demonized as a dangerous threat in Trump’s re-election campaign.
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/what-is-the-boogaloo-movement-thats-being-banned-by-facebook/ar-BB16dgFe?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=U452DHP
Lois Beckett 21 mins ago
For months, in private and public Facebook groups, young American men have discussed killing federal agents and how to prepare for a coming civil war. They have shared carefully posed photographs of their guns and body armor and posted tributes to people they see as martyrs to government oppression.
This anti-government “boogaloo” rhetoric has already been publicly linked to at least least 15 arrests and five deaths, including the murder of a federal security guard and a sheriff’s deputy in California, according to media reports and analysts who track extremists.
Facebook, the primary social media platform for boogaloo discussions, announced on Tuesday that it was banning a network of violent “boogaloo” groups, and designating them as a dangerous organization similar to the Islamic State group and white supremacists. Researchers who have followed the growth of Boogaloo on the platform say the move was “too little, too late”.
Members of the ‘boogaloo’ movement wear Hawaiian shirts paired with body armor and a military-style rifle.
The Trump administration has done even less to address the growth of this new violent rightwing movement, one with strong overlaps with neo-Nazi and white supremacist organizing.
When Donald Trump tweeted angrily about “Treason, Sedition, Insurrection!” in late June, he was not denouncing the young men who are openly calling for civil war, but the nonviolent Black Lives Matter movement. Many black activist organizations are currently focused on defunding police departments and reinvesting the money in community services.
The Department of Homeland Security has publicly denied that the “boogaloo” movement is rightwing, and tweeted an attack on a news outlet that correctly labeled it.
The justice department announced last week that it was creating a taskforce on domestic extremism, but said the task force would focus not only on the rightwing “boogaloo” movement, but also on leftwing anti-fascist activists, who are being demonized as a dangerous threat in Trump’s re-election campaign.
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/what-is-the-boogaloo-movement-thats-being-banned-by-facebook/ar-BB16dgFe?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=U452DHP
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