extremism
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Trump’s Facebook Ads Keep Getting More And More Fascist
Yesterday, Donald Trump became the third U.S. president in the history of the United States to get impeached, and Trump is obviously not happy. But as things get worse for the president, his message becomes more and more extreme, especially on social media platforms like Facebook. The Trump campaign buys new Facebook ads every day,…
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Internet-Savvy Nazi Says A Bunch Of Old Fashioned Nazi Shit In Leaked Tape
Richard Spencer, one of the most high profile neo-Nazis in America, has spent the past three years online trying to rebrand his extremist ideology with terms like “alt-right.” But a newly leaked audio tape makes it clear that this “dapper white nationalist” doesn’t have any new ideas. Spencer is just an old-fashioned Nazi.
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With Senate Inquiry Looming, Facebook Scrambles To Look Busy
“There’s been a general feeling from the platform companies of kind of playing rope-a-dope with the Congress,” U.S. Senator Ed Markey told a small audience gathered in the U.S. Federal Election Commission’s headquarters around 9am Tuesday morning in America. Four hours later, Markey’s well-informed inference was proven true yet again when Facebook trotted out a…
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Trump Insists He Could’ve Won Without Social Media During Morning Toilet Tweets
Donald Trump insisted in a tweet yesterday morning, U.S. time, that he could’ve won the presidency in 2016 without the help of social media. But Trump immediately contradicted himself, sending out a series of follow-up tweets claiming that he doesn’t need the mainstream media and that social media is much more important.