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Addendum the #BrandTechSocialMediaAltGab 'frog' logo/brand-mark has been stylised to look like the #SymbolHatePepeTheFrogKek #PhenomnMeme

#OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump #CatchcryGodAndGuns ^[tweet]

#SlurAntiWhite #MetaphorPillRed #PoliticsFascismNazi anti #CauseFeminism #PhenomnMulticulturalism #BeliefTheismChristianity #CatchcryLivesMatterAllALM #TauntEdgelord ^[Wikipedia]

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Supplementary #EDUNLWillemDeKooningAcademieFlorianCramer https://evening-class.org/2016/12/13/alt-right-a-lecture-by-florian-cramer And http://www.tacticalmediafiles.net/videos/45022/Meme-Wars_-Internet-culture-and-the-_alt_right_- #IRLPoliticalStrategistSteveBannon #SlurWhiteSupremacy #IRLIdeologueMiloYiannopoulosAKAMiloAndreasWagner ^{[Muckrack] [Wikipedia]} #CampaignHashtagGamerGate #AdvocacyUSNationalPolicyInstituteNPIRichardSpencer e.g. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/10/us/alt-right-national-socialist-movement-white-supremacy.html #OrgFRNouvelleDroite ^[Wikipedia] #WebsiteAmericanRenaissanceJaredTaylor ^[Wikipedia] https://www.amren.com/ #PowerControlSegregationEthnopluralism #PowerControlSegregationIdentitarianism #PleaManosphere ^[Wikipedia] #BeliefPseudoscience #IRLSoftwareDeveloperNickLand https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/11/accelerationism-how-a-fringe-philosophy-predicted-the-future-we-live-in #IRLPrivateCitizenCurtisYarvinAKAMenciusMoldbug #TheoryDarkEnlightenmentNRx #Symbol1488RS #PoliticsFascismNaziNeoFarRightAltRightRadicalRight ^{[The Southern Poverty Law Center]} #OrgIntlAnonymous Gabriel Emile Hine, Jeremiah Onaolapo, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Nicolas Kourtellis, Ilias Leontiadis, Riginos Samaras, Gianluca Stringhini and Jeremy Blackburn (2017). 'Kek, Cucks, and God Emperor Trump: A Measurement Study of 4chan's Politically Incorrect Forum and Its Effects on the Web'. https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.03452v1 #CharacterisationWeaknessCuck #IRLDeceasedTrayvonMartin https://www.mic.com/articles/147969/what-is-8chans-pol-forum-where-trump-star-of-david-meme-first-spread #Website4chan8chan8kun #BeliefTheismJudaismStarOfDavid #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyHillaryClinton #OtheringHateAntisemitism #MassShooting2016OrlandoPulseNightclub ^[Wikipedia] #2006_BoysClub1 #PhenomnBetaUprising ^{[pop culture wiki]} #GameVideoWorldOfWarcraft #WebsiteTheRightStuff ^[Wikipedia] #SymbolHairstyleFashyUndercut https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/patriciasuarez/before-it-was-the-fascist-haircut-it-was-so-much-more #MetaphorWarfareSocialJusticeWarriorSJW #BrandTechSocialMediaTumblr #ConspiracyTheory_WhiteGenocide / #PowerControlPopulationEugenicsRaceSuicide

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#NewspaperUKBrdshtTheGuardianJasonWilson "Curtis Yarvin is hardly a household name in US politics. But the 'neoreactionary' thinker and far-right blogger is emerging as a serious intellectual influence on key figures in Donald Trump's coming administration in particular over potential threats to US democracy. Yarvin, who considers liberal democracy as a decadent enemy to be dismantled, is intellectually influential on vice president-elect JD Vance and close to several proposed Trump appointees. The aftermath of Trump's election victory has seen actions and rhetoric from Trump and his lieutenants that closely resemble Yarvin's public proposals for taking autocratic power in America." https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/21/curtis-yarvin-trump #2024_

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#WebsiteTheNerdReichGilDuran https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC629l-wZBQ https://www.thenerdreich.com/silicon-valleys-playbook-and-the-ai-coup/ #PleaRetireAllGovernmentEmployeesRAGE #MetaphorPlaybook #ToponymAmericaNorthUSCaliforniaNorthernSiliconValley #IRLEntrepreneurPeterThiel #OrgUSFedGovDepartmentOfGovernmentEfficiencyDOGE #PoliticsAuthoritarianismDictatorship #IRLEntrepreneurElonMusk #PhenomnRevolutionButterfly #MetaphorPurge #PhenomnOrderChaos

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#MagazineUSTheAtlanticAliBreland "The current moment looks a lot like fusionism 2.0: The uniting through line of opposing communism has been replaced by an opposition to 'wokeness,' as the University of Virginia historian David Austin Walsh has observed. The similarities between the political moments provide a rough model for how the new MAGA coalition might persist. In the original fusionism, communism was almost always a bigger deal than whatever libertarians and social conservatives didn't see eye to eye on. This worked because 'communism' never just meant one thing. It could be invoked to oppose the Soviet Union and the literal ideology of communism, to thwart the supposedly communist-infilitrated civil-rights and anti-war movements, or to refer to anything related to left-wing politics. Wokeness now serves that function on the right. It's no coincidence that wokeness is a rebranded version of the right's previous bogeyman: 'cultural Marxism.' As Musk has ripped up federal agencies in a supposed effort to reduce government waste, a lot of what DOGE has actually focused on is rooting out perceived wokeness." ^{[digital archives]} #PleaMAGA #CharacterisationTechBro #PoliticsNationalismWhite #PoliticsNationalismXenophobicNativism #PoliticsGovernanceOligarchy #CharacterisationTechBroTechRight #TauntWokeness #EDUUSUniversityOfVirginiaUVADavidAustinWalsh #PoliticsConservatismFusionism #OrgUSFedGovDepartmentOfGovernmentEfficiencyDOGE #2025_

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#WebsiteSubstackNotesFromPlagueIsland "A decade ago, the Dark Enlightenment was an obscure online subculture; a handful of techno-futurists dreaming of monarchies run by CEOs and algorithms. Today, its ideas are shaping governments, influencing billionaires, and sanctifying the marriage of technology and theology." https://www.plagueisland.com/p/the-dark-enlightenment-the-gospel

#2018_WhyObviousLiesMakeGreatPropaganda https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nknYtlOvaQ0 Maza, C., Lowndes, C., Boone, H., & Scheltens, L. (2018, 31 August 2018). 'Why obvious lies make great propaganda', Vox Media. https://www.vox.com/2018/8/31/17804104/strikethrough-lies-propaganda-trump-putin #WebsiteVoxCarlosMaza, #WebsiteVoxColemanLowndes, #WebsiteVoxHunterBoone, #WebsiteVoxLizScheltens

#AdvocacyUSRANDCorporationChristopherPaul and #AdvocacyUSRANDCorporationMiriamMatthews, The Russian 'Firehose of Falsehood' Propaganda Model: Why It Might Work and Options to Counter It. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2016. https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PE198.html #TheoryAlternativeFacts #MetaphorDeceitLugenpresseFakeNews #MetaphorDeceitFakeReality #TheoryFirehoseOfFalsehood

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Context #IRLScholarTimothySnyder https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1844108355590 #ConspiracyTheory_StolenElectionBigLie #TheoryPeriodizationPostTruth Pre #PoliticsFascism #IdentityLGBTQIATransTranny #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump #PhenomnCoupDEtatPutsch #TauntImpeachment #TheoryAffectiveResponseIncitementOfInsurrection #OtheringDiscriminationRacism #PoliticsNationalismAmerican #OtheringLegitimacyQuestioning #PoliticsGeoExceptionalismAmerican #CauseEquality #_Focal

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Supplementary In this fallacy one argues, 'I feel it, so it must be true. My feelings are valid, so you have no right to criticize what I say or do, or how I say or do it.' This latter is also a fallacy of stasis, confusing a respectful and reasoned response or refutation with personal invalidation, disrespect, prejudice, bigotry, sexism, homophobia or hostility. ... 'Alternate Facts' work to 'put you off balance,' 'control the story,' and 'make you think you're crazy,' and she notes that 'presenting alternate facts is the hallmark of untrustworthy people.' The Alternative Truth fallacy is related to the Big Lie Technique. See also Gaslighting, Blind Loyalty, The Big Brain/Little Brain Fallacy, and Two Truths https://utminers.utep.edu/omwilliamson/ENGL1311/fallacies.htm #IRLPhilosopherHannahArendt #ReasoningFallacyAffective #TauntGaslighting #MemeSmallBrainYellingAtBigBrain #OtheringDenialPrejudice

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https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2019/01/28/bullshit-asymmetry-principle/

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"It has frequently been noticed that the surest long-term result of brainwashing is a peculiar kind of cynicism--an absolute refusal to believe in the truth of anything, no matter how well this truth may be established. In other words, the result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lies will now be accepted as truth, and the truth be de-famed as lies, but that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world and the category of truth vs. falsehood is among the mental means to this end is--being destroyed" (Hannah Arendt, 1967, p.82). ^[pdf]

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#NewspaperUSBrdshtNewYorkTimesEzraKlein https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8QLgLfqh6s&t=17s #NMUSPublicBroadcastingServicePBSFrontlineMichaelKirk, #NMUSPublicBroadcastingServicePBSFrontlineGabrielleSchonder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm5xxlajTW0&t=5205s (17 March 2019). https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/interview/steve-bannon-2/ #IRLPoliticalStrategistSteveBannon #MetaphorWarfareMuzzleVelocity #NMUSFOXFNCMegynKelly #IRLPoliticalAdvisorStephenMiller

#IRLFilmmakerKirbyFerguson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ca2DSsuE7jI #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump #MetaphorVersusUsThem #ConspiracyTheory_CabalQAnon #ConspiracyTheory_5G #PhenomnVirusCOVID19 #ConspiracyTheory_ #ConspiracyTheory_COVID19Vaccine #TheoryAffectiveResponsePanic #BrandTarget #ConspiracyTheory_FlatEarth #ConspiracyTheory_CabalWayfairTrafficking #BeliefTheismDeitySatanLuciferDevilBeelzebubAntichristDajjal #BeliefMysticismMagicalThinkers #ConspiracyTheory_CabalElitesReptilianLizardPeople #ConspiracyTheory_CabalPizzagate e.g. "Four minutes into a video that was posted on Instagram last month, #IRLSingerJustinBieber leaned into the camera and adjusted the front of his black knit beanie. For some of his 130 million followers, it was a signal. In the video, someone had posted a comment asking Mr. Bieber to touch his hat if he had been a victim of a child-trafficking ring known as PizzaGate. Thousands of comments were flooding in, and there was no evidence that Mr. Bieber had seen that message. But the pop star's innocuous gesture set off a flurry of online activity, which highlighted the resurgence of one of social media's early conspiracy theories." https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/27/technology/pizzagate-justin-bieber-qanon-tiktok.html #IRLArtistMarinaAbramovic #EpistemologyAmateurExegetePatternSeeking #2009_BlackDynamite #PoliticsFascismCyber https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/55101238

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Context https://www.everythingisaremix.info/about

#PhenomnVideoCutUp http://reorder.tv/?v=pluS1iBDSo4 of #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump (24 April 2020) intercut with footage of #OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyBorisJohnson during his tenure as London Mayor (2008 - 2016) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4EAc0QFubs

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Supplementary https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/04/23/donald-trump-says-boris-johnson-sounds-incredible-recovering/

conservative video-sharing site, erroneously named Prager 'University' http://PragerU.com #WebsitePragerU #PoliticsConservatismSocialSoCon

conservative radio talk show host and PragerU founder #IRLPresenterDennisPrager #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump

#OrgClassifPPUKTheBrexitPartyReformUKClaireFox talks to #OrgClassifPPUKSocialDemocraticPartyWilliamClouston about a supposed #CatchcryFreeSpeechFreedomOfSpeech / #CatchcryIdentityPolitics crisis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jh383l80Cx0 i.e. just another #TheoryAffectiveResponseNarrative about #TheoryAffectiveResponseOutrage, #TheoryAffectiveResponsePanic and #TheoryPoliticsOfFearAnxietyOfVictimisation.

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Context https://sdp.org.uk/people/

#BrandTechNewsGuard's update-to-date list of websites publishing false Coronavirus information: https://www.newsguardtech.com/coronavirus-misinformation-tracking-center/ #PhenomnVirusCOVID19

Full NewsGuard report on Brighteon: ^[pdf] #BrandTechSocialMediaAltBrighteon

shock-jock #IRLShockJockAlexJonesInfoWars' far-right American #ConspiracyTheory_ and #MetaphorDeceitLugenpresseFakeNews website InfoWars has a channel here: http://www.brighteon.com/channels/infowarsnetwork ^[Wikipedia]

#IRLContrarianMikeAdams: http://www.brighteon.com/5824511013001 (previously, REAL.video). Adams explains that the platform is an alternative to mainstream services such as YouTube and Facebook, which he implies are in the pocket of 'globalists' #ConspiracyTheory_DeepState conspiracists).

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Context #EDUCAMcGillUniversityJonathanJarry https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/quackery/mike-adams-building-alternate-reality-online

https://datasociety.net/library/searching-for-alternative-facts/ ^[pdf] (May 2018) #_Focal #TheoryAlternativeFacts

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Supplementary https://ftripodi.com/ #EDUUSUniversityOfNorthCarolinaChapelHillUNC

Published as part of the #TauntMediaManipulation research initiative funded by #OrgUSDataAndSociety http://datasociety.net/people/tripodi-francesca/ #_UnwokeUnawake #IRLScholarFrancescaTripodi #EpistemologyAmateurExegeteGooglingStuffAsResearch / #EpistemologyAmateurExegeteScripturalInference #TheoryPsychologySchemaTheory #PhenomnRadicalisationAltRightPipeline

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Supplementary #IRLScholarTimothySnyder (Ep. 13) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAObqEu_tbg&t=845s #PoliticsFascismCyber

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#TVAUABCAdenCotterill "Why are so many Christians to be found in the ranks of today's conspiracy theorists? Just consider the popularity of a movement like QAnon -- which claims that Donald Trump is waging a secret war against 'a worldwide cabal of Satan-worshipping paedophiles' -- among evangelicals." https://www.abc.net.au/religion/why-are-christians-susceptible-to-conspiracy-theories/13003550 #BeliefTheismChristianityBibleScripture #ConspiracyTheory_ #ConspiracyTheory_CabalQAnon #PowerControlViolationPaedophilia

#OrgClassifPPUKHeritagePartyDavidKurten #NewspaperUKTabloidTheDailyMail Apparently he is deluded enough to imagine he has a chance of winning as: "London Mayor and Assembly list elections on 7th May 2020 as an Independent candidate" https://www.davidkurten.net/

Clearly reading from the same old conservative playbook. What is it about their mythological anti #OtheringElitesHollywoodHollyweird characterisation, which so offends them and incites such an intense sense of anxiety? Why are these people not more aware of how formulaic their responses are? Or, is this the point - is this simply more 'dog whistling' - moral panic used as a subterfuge to garner support which might not otherwise be so forthcoming? Perhaps, comment identity performance and an expression of power? #IRLMusicianMadonna #IRLActorRobertDeNiro #PhenomnVirusCOVID19

#IRLScholarTerryFlew https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkdTXwbpAWs&t=1873s

#OrgUSInternationalCommunicationAssociationICA ^{[channel] [Government]} #PhenomnTrustNetworks #ConspiracyTheory_ #PhenomnVirusCOVID19Pandemic #IRLEconomistHalVarian #PowerControlOverreach https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkdTXwbpAWs&t=657s #IRLSociologistNiklasLuhmann #IRLPhilosopherOnoraONeill #IRLPhilosopherThomasHobbes #IRLPhilosopherJohnLocke #IRLHistoricalFigureImmanuelKant #IRLPhilosopherKongQiuAKAConfucius #PhenomnAccountability #IRLHistorianPierreRosanvallon #IRLScholarGunnEnli https://www.hf.uio.no/english/people/admin/fac/management/gunnen/ #OtheringLegitimacyQuestioning #IRLSociologistGeorgSimmel #IRLSociologistMaxWeber #IRLSociologistAnthonyGiddens #IRLSociologistUlrichBeck #IRLEconomistKennethArrow #IRLEconomistAlbertHirschman #IRLSociologistNickCouldry #IRLEconomistDouglassNorth #IRLEconomistOliverWilliamson #IRLHistoricalFigureAdamSmith #IRLWriterRaymondWilliams #IRLTheoristJamesCarey ^[Wikipedia] #IRLScientistSocialChristianFuchs https://fuchsc.uti.at/about/ #IRLPhilosopherJurgenHabermas #TheoryAgendaSetting ^[Wikipedia] #IRLScholarMaxwellMcCombs ^[Wikipedia] #IRLScholarDonaldShaw ^[Wikipedia] #IRLPhilosopherJohnFiske #IRLScholarJohnHartley #IRLScholarHenryJenkins #IRLScholarGeorgeGerbner #TheoryMediaCultivation #IRLScreenwriterLarryGross #IRLJournalistRobertEntman #IRLJournalistNikkiUsher #TheoryPeriodizationPostTruth i.e. #IRLSilvioWaisbord #EDUUSUniversityOfIllinoisUrbanaChampaignZiziPapacharissi

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Supplementary #IRLScholarCharlesTilly (2004). 'Trust and Rule.' Theory and Society, vol. 33, no. 1, 2004, pp. 1-30. JSTOR, ^{[academic source]}

#LiteralRFID 'inventor' Dr #IRLEngineerCarlSanders delivers a 'confessional' style sermon about the evils of his invention and the supposed intention to use it as 'microchip implant'. He talks about the perils of watching television, which he characterises as the #BeliefTheismBabylonian 'idiot-box'. In doing so, he substantiates his claims through using still-frames from #IRLFilmmakerJohnCarpenter's #1988_TheyLive http://folksonomy.simonperkins.co.uk/?permalink=3883 -namely, Carpenter's shots of protagonist Nada recognising the 'truth' behind familiar advertising images/billboards i.e. appropriating Carpenter's critique of consumerism to serve as illustration of his 'malevolent technology' conspiracy theory. For conext about Carl Sanders: https://newsmobile.in/articles/2020/09/30/fact-check-old-video-of-carl-sanders-who-designed-rfid-microchip-falsely-linked-to-covid-19/

The video is interesting in the way that it is both #BrandTechSocialMediaYouTubeUnlisted - despite being clearly intended for a large audience - both through the inclusion of merchandise ads and accompanying chat replay. One can only assume, that there intention here is to bypass YouTube's algorithms (both for validating the clip's credibility/trustworthiness and for linking to 'related' clips). In doing so, presumably alternative means for distribution are in place. I myself, was forwarded a direct-link to the clip via a Twitter post (from an ardent Trump supporter). Your Loveworld with Pastor #IRLDogmatistChrisDay 2 Phase 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PurVx6_0Wc (this now appears to be unavailable). Here is an alternative copy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otpajdJrkTE Incidentally, the video spawned the following two alternative medicine clips: https://getkailo.io/offer-01/ and https://mysciaticaexercises.com/products/178/sp-worst-foods-b-vsl/ (as in, the anticipated audience for the clip are those who are more likely to buy-into alternative medicine claims)

example libertarian video "Message to [the] Police": https://drop.space/watch/message-to-police_1KmIdF1pFq7z8XJ.html created/uploaded by Josie, 16 Apr 2020, KickingtheDems (channel), https://drop.space/, ^[Twitter] Dagny_Taggart (channel), (21 Apr 2020) https://drop.space/watch/message-to-the-dark-controllers_xvSr8kIROQd1hrB.html and YouTube version: Laura (Magdalene) Eisenhower (10 Apr 2020). "Message to the Dark Controllers", 311,728 views. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3aEn7eSyI "research... lies, deception and evil acts" also anti-Bill gates; https://cosmicgaia.org/ https://www.gaia.com/article/laura-eisenhower-military-industrial-complex

moral outrage over supposed "blood cult" illustrated by images showing guests eating cakes, which have been sculpted in the form of life-like human cadavers at the *Devil's Heaven: 20th Annual Summer Benefit* (https://www.watermillcenter.org/benefit-2013/): https://drop.space/watch/hollywood-is-burning-la-blood-cult-why-celebrities-look-like-the-walking-dead_RzAOjWPLQm4NzQg.html More conspiracy nonsense here: https://kundaliniandcelltowers.com/podesta-pizzagate-pedophilia.html #IRLMusicianCher #IRLCelebrityLadyGaga #IRLMusicianMadonna #2013_AnnualWatermillCenterSummerBenefit

#IRLShockJockRushLimbaugh - conservative, seemingly #TalkbackRadio pioneer. Talkback Radio, which is ideologically conservative (as well as caters to libertarians).

"Nuance is boring, basically. And what isn't boring is saying, 'Those Democrats are a bunch of socialists trying to destroy America,' and playing to people's emotions." https://www.pri.org/stories/2019-12-20/power-conservative-talk-radio "Conservative talk radio did not experience its significant growth until #1987_, when the #OrgUSFederalCommunicationsCommissionFCC voted to abolish the #LegislationUSFCCFairnessDoctrine ... the American government came from the #TelecommunicationsAct of #1996_, which allowed companies to own more radio stations and for some shows to become nationally syndicated" ^[Wikipedia]

#IRLJournalistAudraSchroeder, Daily Dot (2 November 2018,): https://www.dailydot.com/upstream/bitchute/

e.g. #WebsiteNewsguard : The Latest Attack on Independent Media: https://www.bitchute.com/video/bY9Ggc_y97U/ (which makes mention of: https://www.mintpressnews.com/newsguard-neocons-test-drive-newest-weapon-to-crush-indie/253684/) #BrandTechSocialMediaAltBitChute