Here’s Why Andrew Yang’s Alt-Right Supporters Think He’s the 2020 Candidate for White Nationalists
Mother Jones illustration; Drew Angerer/Getty Last Month, Andrew Yang’s 2020 Presidential bid careened from out of nearly nowhere onto the 2020 Democratic debate stage in a matter of days. Until March 4, the hashtag #YangGang had mostly been quietly floating around Twitter, only occasionally garnering a peak of just hundreds of daily mentions. But on…
The Cops Want to Know What’s Happening on 8chan
8chan’s logo Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. American law enforcement agencies apparently want to know more about what’s happening on 8chan. According to the site’s March 2o19 “Transparency Report,” released Friday, the image board had “received and complied with” 12 requests from the U.S. government and or U.S law enforcement…
Facebook Just Announced Plans to Ban White Nationalists and Separatists
Facebook finally banned white nationalism from its platform, though “white power” and similar statements will remain.Anadolu Agency / Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. More than a year and a half after the platform was used to organize a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, Facebook announced on Wednesday that it…
Social Media Giants Have Been Promising to Stop Livestreamed Violence For Years. They Still Can’t.
A vigil three days after a gunman livestreamed his murder of at least 50 people at two New Zealand mosques.PJ Heller/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. By Saturday night, Facebook said it had removed 1.5 million videos depicting the deadly mass shooting in New Zealand that had taken place…
How the Suspected New Zealand Gunman Weaponized the Internet
Members of the anti-terrorism campaign Turn to Love hold signs outside the New Zealand High Commission in London on Friday, following the mosque attacks.Jonathan Brady/PA Wire via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. After every mass murder, journalists, researchers, and horrified members of the public turn to the internet as…
The Bizarre and Terrifying Case of the “Deepfake” Video that Helped Bring an African Nation to the Brink
Government of Gabon Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This fall, Gabon was facing an odd and tenuous political situation. President Ali Bongo had been out of the country since October receiving medical treatment in Saudi Arabia and London and had not been seen in public. People in Gabon and observers…