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Category: Hate & extremism

It shouldn’t take bin Laden to wake you up to rampant antisemitism on TikTok

A surprising number of young people have recently posted TikTok videos in praise of Osama bin Laden’s “Letter to America.” The speakers in these videos, overwhelmingly by people who look too young to even remember 9/11, focus on how bin Laden’s antisemitic pro-terrorism screed opened their eyes to America’s evils. “Under settler colonialism,” one said, “Any kind […]
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Musk on Antisemitic Conspiracy Theory: ‘The Actual Truth’

Elon Musk, who has steered X (formerly Twitter) into a tsunami of antisemitic discourse since taking over the site in 2022, has now endorsed a post attacking Jewish communities and accusing them of promoting “dialectical hatred against whites.” On Wednesday, X user @CWBOCA, whose bio states “Jewish Conservative from S. Florida,” shared a PSA from the Foundation to Combat Antisemitism that […]
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The QAnon Shaman Isn’t Even the Most Extreme Candidate in His Race for Congress

The man who became a figurehead of the January 6 Capitol riot is planning to run for Congress in Arizona, and he may not even be the most extreme candidate on the ballot. Jacob Chansley, a January 6 rioter known as the QAnon Shaman who wore face paint and horns to breach the Capitol, pleaded […]
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Who is Jackson Hinkle? Twitter's most viral misinformation spreader and anti-Israel activist

In 2018, Jackson Hinkle was a political activist, campaigning for climate justice – and Bernie Sanders. Writing for his High School newspaper, he aimed “to provide factual information and new thoughts to the currently stigmatized scenes of local, national, and international politics”. In the six years since, he has been banned from WhatsApp, YouTube, Paypal, […]
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Israeli kids killed on October 7 were actors, claims Jeremy Corbyn’s brother

Piers Corbyn, the brother of former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, was recorded going on a tirade about whether Hamas’ October 7 invasion had happened. Corbyn was at a pro-Palestine demonstration when a man approached him and asked him how he would solve the “hostage issue.” Hamas is currently holding over 200 Israelis and other foreign […]
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'Hamas Attack Was an Inside Job': Why Are Wild Conspiracy Theories So Popular?

Hours after the shocking attack by Hamas, erstwhile soccer player and current sports commentator Maor Buzaglo rushed to point a finger at those who are really to blame for the debacle. “Something isn’t working out in any way here,” he tweeted. “It’s not that they attacked with spaceships or stealth aircraft. Without a single helicopter […]
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The Cult of ‘Antizionism’

A group of anti-Israel academics and BDS activists have taken a new step toward rebuilding the long-forgotten Soviet discipline of “scientific antizionism” on American campuses. The “founding collective” of 10 has established an Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism, which aims “to support the delinking of the study of Zionism from Jewish Studies” and “to […]
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Conspiracy theories about Michelle Obama's gender spread on Twitter

"What happened to Michael LaVaughn Robinson AKA Big Mike?" says a June 14, 2023 tweet from Simon Goddek, whose account was previously suspended for spreading misinformation about Covid-19. The post includes two photos of Barack and Michelle Obama, one recent and one older. [...] Read more
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How Telegram became the most important Platform for Conspiracy Ideologies

Within the past three years, Telegram has become the most important platform for conspiracy ideologues and right-wing extremists in German-speaking countries. Using this messaging service, numerous channels reach hundreds of thousands of people every day – and for some messages, the number of views is in the millions. The messaging service was used, for example, […]
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