Some links to Q-related items today…
Kanye on Infowars
Kanye's InfoWars appearance is starting off great. pic.twitter.com/wghVky4mJk
— Will Sommer (@willsommer) December 1, 2022
Kanye West: "I see good things about Hitler also."
— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) December 1, 2022
The "Committee of 300" has been in the conspiracy sphere for a century. He sounds crazy if you don't know the context, but he's repeating a very old message pushed by antisemites in Russia, Germany, and the US. https://t.co/7xxSHHo6vo
— Mike Rothschild (@rothschildmd) December 1, 2022
Crazy how accurate this tweet became @zackfox https://t.co/1f40fqjrKu pic.twitter.com/cSfAr4Bvp4
— loop (@get_soled) December 1, 2022
The House Judiciary Committee Republican account appear to have finally deleted the "Kanye. Elon. Trump." tweet it sent in early October. pic.twitter.com/KmmPkMh4cz
— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) December 1, 2022
I have to admit I’m a little surprised that supremely influential titans of business of culture can be radicalized online as easily as powerless, disaffected teenagers.
— Travis View (@travis_view) December 1, 2022
Weird to watch a famous person rewrite the first sentence of their obituary in real time
— Dave Levitan (@davelevitan) December 2, 2022
well i think we can all agree this has been a truly incredible night for free speech
— Robert Evans (The Only Robert Evans) (@IwriteOK) December 2, 2022
Kanye West posts on Truth Social that his Twitter account has been temporarily locked for 12 hours, after posting a swastika. pic.twitter.com/W2Gkk65evk
— Zachary Petrizzo (@ZTPetrizzo) December 2, 2022
a 12 hour ban. it’s like a cooling off period. Come back in the morning and maybe you’ll have all the swastikas out of your system
— farhad manjoo (@fmanjoo) December 2, 2022
The Twitter conflagration continues
Just connected with Dean Baker, who was just suspended from Twitter. Here's what he received. He writes about *economics,* FFS. He says he has no idea what triggered this, and Twitter cited nothing specific: pic.twitter.com/1mVDkOI7GJ
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) December 1, 2022
EXCLUSIVE: Elon Musk has used Twitter polls to justify moves such as reinstating Trump’s account, but employees tell Rolling Stone the social network’s surveys are magnets for bots. They’re literally designed to be spammed and gamed. https://t.co/hmyR2Z5xGn
— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) December 1, 2022
American Nazis are having a moment
Deep dive here from @misstessowen on Nick Fuentes, pied-piper of a sprawling network of internet neo-Nazis, edgelords, incels, and white nationalists who is inching his way into the conservative mainstream https://t.co/00v2CVvEBr via @vicenews
— Michael Learmonth (@learmonth) December 1, 2022
Looking for some background on the QAnon movement? We recommend Travis View’s excellent article at New York magazine as a place to start.
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Posted by Tony Ortega on December 2, 2022 at 08:00
