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[Link] Alleged Club Q Shooter Changed Their Name After Edgelord Harassment Campaign
Read: 23/11/2022 www.vice.com
On Saturday night, Club Q, an LGBTQ dance club in Colorado Springs, erupted into violence as a person armed with a rifle entered the establishment and began firing. At the end of the bloodshed, five people were dead and dozens more were injured.
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[Link] Someone Keeps Papering This Texas Neighborhood in Racist Flyers
Read: 16/2/2022 www.vice.com
For the second time in a week, residents in a Houston neighborhood woke up to the sight of dozens of racist flyers strewn across their properties.
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[Link] Note from Aldo Moro kidnappers sells for €26,000 at controversial auction
Read: 27/1/2022 www.theguardian.com
Rome’s Bertolami auction house sold the historical document for €26,000 ($28,960) on Thursday, far surpassing its original estimate of €1,300-1,700.
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[Link] Proud Boys and Oath Keepers Sued By DC Attorney General for Jan. 6
Read: 14/12/2021 www.vice.com
This is a developing story. Please refresh for updates. The D.C. attorney general is suing the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys for damages for allegedly “planning, promoting, and participating in” the Jan. 6 attack on Congress, he announced Tuesday.
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[Link] The Taliban Are Blacklisted by Facebook. Then Why Are They Allowed to Post?
Read: 2/12/2021 www.vice.com
For years, Facebook has prohibited the Taliban from using its platform under its counter-terrorist and hate group community standards.
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[Link] ‘Head of propaganda’ for UK neo-Nazi group faces jail after conviction
Read: 1/12/2021 www.theguardian.com
A man has been convicted of acting as “head of propaganda” for a banned neo-Nazi terror group set up to wage a race war in Britain.
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[Link] The QAnon JFK Cult in Dallas Is Tearing Families Apart
Read: 23/11/2021 www.vice.com
Katy Garner and her sister grew up in a small town in Arkansas and were always close. “We both were cheerleaders in school, made pretty good grades, and loved to just hang out with friends and each other. No one has a perfect childhood, but we had each other. We knew that.
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[Link] Neo-Nazis Are Trying to Hijack the ‘Unite the Right’ Trial and Turn It Into a Horrible Podcast
Read: 9/11/2021 www.vice.com
This is, perhaps, an inevitable byproduct of trying to hold the more than two dozen white nationalist and neo-Nazi figures, plus their organizations, accountable for the violent Unite the Right rally that left one dead, many injured, and traumatized this small college town. Sines v.
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[Link] Meet the Antisemitic QAnon Leader Who Led Followers to Dallas to Meet JFK
Read: 7/11/2021 www.vice.com
On Tuesday morning, hundreds of QAnon followers gathered on the grassy knoll in Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, believing they were going to see John F. Kennedy reappear. These people had traveled from all over the U.S.
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[Link] Afghanistan’s neighbours gather in Tehran to discuss its future
Read: 4/11/2021 www.aljazeera.com
Iran says the main goal of the event is to emphasise the call for the formation of an ‘inclusive’ government in Afghanistan.
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[Link] ‘Hard Not To Respect That’: Why White Nationalists Are Toasting the Taliban
Read: 21/10/2021 www.vice.com
When the Taliban captured Kabul in August, sealing a remarkable victory in its nearly 20-year war of attrition against the world's leading superpower, jihadist networks around the world erupted in jubilation.
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[Link] Nazis and incels are using Gotye and MGMT to evade TikTok's auto-moderators, report finds
Read: 25/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
While it's hardly surprising fringe groups have used social media platforms to post hateful material, experts say TikTok has birthed creative ways to distribute the content and avoid auto-takedowns.
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[Link] Facebook and tech giants to target attacker manifestos, far-right militias in database
Read: 28/7/2021 www.reuters.com
July 26 (Reuters) - A counterterrorism organization formed by some of the biggest U.S. tech companies including Facebook (FB.O) and Microsoft (MSFT.
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[Link] YouTube recommends videos that violate its own policies, study finds
Read: 27/7/2021 thenextweb.com
Writer at Neural by TNW — Thomas covers AI in all its iterations. Likes Werner Herzog films and Arsenal FC.
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